Two people were injured in a shooting in Fort Worth, Texas. According to CNN, a woman and young girl suffered non-life threatening injuries after a fight outside of a youth football game devolved.
Police report that a group of parents were arguing near a football game at Eastern Hills Elementary School. The son of one of the parents arrived with a handgun and opened fire, according to Fort Worth PD's Public Information Officer Jimmy Pollozani. The woman was shot in the leg and the girl was grazed by a bullet on her back.
As of this writing, police are still searching for the person they believe was the shooter.
The shooting comes at a time where national attention is on the subject of gun crime in Texas, following a mass shooting in an El Paso Walmart that killed 22 people and another in West Texas that left seven people dead. Shortly thereafter, the state's gun laws were loosened by laws passed earlier in the year to allow guns on church and school grounds. The permitting of guns in churches came in response to a shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs that killed 26 people.
“We have learned many times over that there is no such thing as a gun-free zone. Those with evil intentions will violate the law and carry out their heinous acts no matter what,” state Sen. Donna Campbell said of the measure. “It makes no sense to disarm the good guys and leave law-abiding citizens defenseless where violent offenders break the law to do great harm.”
