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Texas shooting: Gunman was fired from job hours before shooting rampage

People gather for a vigil following Saturday's shooting in Odessa, Texas, U.S. September 1, 2019.

The man who killed seven people and wounded 22 others in a rolling rampage across West Texas on Saturday was fired from his trucking job hours before the massacre, media and officials reported.

Details about the Labor Day weekend shooting and the names of some of the victims were emerging online and from officials on Sunday and early Monday. Police continued to comb through 15 different crime scenes in neighboring Midland and Odessa, Texas.

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