Fatal Shooting in Texas: Child, two adults killed as gunfire breaks out outside High School Football Stadium, cops launch probe
Global Desk March 28, 2026 04:00 PM
Synopsis

Tragedy struck Haltom City, Texas, on March 27, 2026. A shooting outside a high school football stadium claimed the lives of a kindergarten student and two adults. Police are investigating the incident as a murder-suicide. Authorities believe the victims knew each other. The fatal shootings followed a domestic dispute in the stadium parking lot.

Fatal shooting in Texas: Child, two adults killed in gunfire
A shooting incident occurred outside a Texas high school football stadium, leaving a kindergartener and two adults dead. According to FOX 4, Haltom City police responded to reports of fatal gunfire in the parking lot of Birdville ISD's football stadium, located in Haltom City, Texas, at around 4:30 p.m. on March 27, 2026 (Friday).

On their arrival at the shooting site, police found three people: an adult male, an adult female, and a female child. They said two female victims, an adult and a juvenile, were found in the car, and one of them died at the scene, while the other died at the hospital, the local news outlet reported.

The third male adult was identified by the police as the suspect and was also found dead in the parking lot. Later, Birdville ISD said that a kindergarten student from Cheney Hills Elementary and two adults lost their lives in the shooting. According to police, the incident was a murder-suicide. The identities of the victims were not revealed at the time of filing of this report.


Police say that the fatal shootings followed a domestic dispute in the parking lot of the football stadium. The man, who is the suspect, and the woman separately drove their vehicles into the parking lot before the male shot and killed the woman and female child while inside the vehicle, WFAA reported, citing authorities.

HCPD Sgt. Rick Alexander described a man driving to the area in a U-Haul van and confronting a woman in a white car on a nearby road. The shooter apparantly died from a self-inflicted gunshot a short time later.

"They definitely know each other, and we believe they have some kind of family relationship," Sgt. Rick Alexander of the Haltom City Police Department said on Friday, according to FOX 4.

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