Erbie Bowser is suspected of killing four people and injuring four others in two separate but related Dallas shootings that took place Wednesday night.
Investigators arrested Bowser at the second crime scene, but they have no information about Bowser’s relationship with any of the victims, reports indicate.
DeSoto police Cpt. Melissa Franks said charges are pending.
Police were called around 10:30 p.m. to a home in southwest Dallas where they found four gunshot victims, two of whom had died, officials said.
The suspect then fled to DeSoto, about 10 miles away, where he is suspected of killing two people. Two boys, aged 11 and 13, survived that attack.
Police did not immediately release the identities of those killed and wounded in the attacks, and the conditions of the survivors were not known Thursday.
A neighbor in DeSoto, Tommy Johnson, said he heard a loud boom last night coming from the direction of the home where the victims were later found.
"We thought it was coming from upstairs, because the kids are always upstairs making noise," Johnson said. "I went up and asked, `Did y’all hear anything?’"
"One of my daughters said it came from outside. So I peeped out the front and saw a bunch of officers walking down the sidewalk and about 10 houses up."
Franks said she could not confirm that a grenade or explosive was used in the DeSoto attack, pending the results of an ATF and Dallas bomb squad investigation.