Male NBA cheerleader who reportedly served in Army goes on shooting spree in Dallas - 4 dead, 4 more injured, including 2 kids

The old news axiom, if it bleeds it leads.   What a horrible scene.   

New York Post reports four people have been killed and four wounded in a pair of Dallas-area shootings and the suspected gunman is in custody.

DeSoto police Cpl. Melissa Franks says charges are pending Thursday against Erbie Bowser. She has no details about the suspect who was caught in DeSoto, about 10 miles south of Dallas, or his relationship to the victims.

The Daily Mail reported Bowser is a army veteran and former NBA cheerleader.

Franks says gunfire was reported Wednesday night at a Dallas home and during a related incident minutes later at a residence in DeSoto.

AP

A law enforcement officers confer outside the house of a fatal shooting in DeSoto, Texas. 

Dallas police say two victims at the first crime scene died and two survived. Conditions on the survivors weren't available.

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