Dallas Police spent the day Friday searching for killers who murdered three people and wounded two more at a far North Dallas apartment complex.
The Dallas Police Department said officers responded around 4:30 a.m. to a rear parking lot in the 8500 block of Lazy Acres Circle at the Landmark on the Valley Apartments on Spring Valley Road, west of the Central Expressway.
Residents say they heard the gunfire.
"I came down, there was police everywhere; undercovers everywhere, a whole bunch of bodies and it was crazy. And you can see, I’m like scared for my children," resident Florence Hernandez said.
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Three of the victims, two men and one woman, were pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The two other victims, both adult males, were taken to a local hospital. One was in critical condition and the other was in stable condition.
Resident Marie Revolongo said in Spanish that her 23-year-old nephew was one of the victims. She said she asked him not to go out Thursday night, then went to wake him for work Friday morning and he was not in his room.
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She fought back tears at the crime scene Friday.
Resident Jorge Paniagua said mostly in Spanish that he has lived at the complex for 10 years and has seen problems increase. He said he is worried for the safety of his children, especially in that back parking lot where he parks his car.
The neighbors said they have noticed late-night gatherings in that secluded lot in the past.
"I see people drinking in the back. They are just hanging out. But, I’ve never seen anything like this," Hernandez said.
Police spokeswoman Kristin Lowman said detectives were working hard to identify the people responsible, but that the general public was not believed to be in danger from the shooters who may have had a dispute with the people involved.
"We do want the public to know, it's determined this was not a random incident," Lowman said.
Neighbors were still alarmed about the gunfire so close to their homes.
"I feel sorry for their families. This is like too much. Even if it was over something like drugs, that doesn’t give you a right to murder all these people," Hernandez said.
The apartment complex is at the far north edge of the Dallas city limits. The city of Richardson is across Spring Valley Road from the crime scene. Dallas Police said Richardson Police first alerted them after receiving the initial report of the shooting.
The Dallas Police Department's Homicide Unit is asking anyone with information about this shooting to contact Det. Chad Murphy with the Dallas Police Department Homicide Unit at 214-283-4934 or chad.murphy@dallascityhall.com.
