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A Houston Police Department vehicle hit many times by gunfire is removed from the area May 29, 2016.(Photo: Elizabeth Conley, AP)
HOUSTON —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Police<span style="color: Red;">*</span>identified the suspect in Sunday's deadly shooting at a Houston auto shop<span style="color: Red;">*</span>as<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Dionisio Garza III, an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan.
A motive remains unknown in the deadly spree that left two people dead and six others wounded. Friends of Garza told KHOU-TV Monday that he suffered from PTSD.
Police responding to the shooting killed Garza. They initially identified a second man as a suspect, but on Monday they said<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Byron Wilson was<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in fact a good Samaritan trying to help others in the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>incident at Memorial Auto and Tire<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in west Houston.
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Shootout at Houston auto shop leaves two dead
Wilson<span style="color: Red;">*</span>was critically injured, but police said<span style="color: Red;">*</span>he is expected to survive.
Two other men and one woman<span style="color: Red;">*</span>were hospitalized with injuries police said were not believed to be life-threatening. Two officers who were shot were released from the hospital later Sunday.
The Harris County Medical Examiner<span style="color: Red;">*</span>on Monday identified the other man killed<span style="color: Red;">*</span>as Eugene<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Linscomb, a customer at the auto shop.
A constable car with a shot-out window remains at the scene where Houston police were investigating a shooting May 29, 2016.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Elizabeth Conley, AP)
William McDaniel, owner of Memorial Auto and Tire, said Linscomb was a regular customer.
“(I) couldn’t believe it … just coming to get his car washed and get his head blown off,” McDaniel said.
The Houston Chronicle reported that Paris Nichols saw the suspect<span style="color: Red;">*</span>walk up to his wife,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>reach around her, and shoot the customer she was talking to in the head with a handgun.
Then the gunman<span style="color: Red;">*</span>turned back to his car to grab an assault rifle, the Chronicle reported.
Nichols told the Chronicle<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the man made anti-homosexual and anti-Semitic remarks and told the couple that he wouldn't shoot them "because y'all are Christians."
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Two people were killed and six others were injured when gunfire erupted at a west Houston auto shop. USA TODAY
On his Facebook page, Garza indicated he graduated from Rancho Cucamonga High School<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in California and enlisted in the Army in 2009.
Houston police returned to the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>scene Monday morning to check out a bag they<span style="color: Red;">*</span>believe may have belonged to Garza.
Officers said the military-style bag contained ammo and documents.
Also on Monday, neighbors came<span style="color: Red;">*</span>by to<span style="color: Red;">*</span>pay their respects to the victims.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>One, who left<span style="color: Red;">*</span>flowers and a balloon near the spot where Linscomb was killed,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>called<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the act of violence “sickening.”
“This man was here getting his car detailed and somebody decided that wasn’t good enough and his life wasn’t worth what it is,"<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Adam Binder<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said.
The auto shop was<span style="color: Red;">*</span>riddled with bullet holes.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>There were more than 185 shots fired, including five at HPD’s helicopter<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and a number of shots at the vehicles of responding officers, police said.
Johnny Hunnicutt said<span style="color: Red;">*</span>he came close to being wounded Sunday.
“They (HPD) came by and said the bullet missed my head by four<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to six<span style="color: Red;">*</span>inches,” he said. “The police officer came down and drove right into the gunfire. Can you imagine how brave those guys are?”
Houston Police Union President Ray Hunt said<span style="color: Red;">*</span>an officer who was hit several times in the chest was wearing both a metal breastplate and a bulletproof vest. The second officer was shot in the hand.
Contributing: The Associated Press. Follow<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Drew Karedes, Marcelino Benito and Lauren Talarico<span style="color: Red;">*</span>on Twitter: @DrewKaredesKHOU, @MarcelinoKHOU and @KHOULauren
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A Houston police spokesman says two deputies who were injured while responding to a shooting at an auto shop have been released from the hospital. Others who were injured still remain the hospital, but fortunately none have any life-threatening inju Wochit
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