The Latest: 4th person shot at Texas beachfront hotel dies

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) – GALVESTON, Texas (AP) – The Latest on a suspected murder-suicide at an upscale beachfront hotel in Galveston, Texas: (all times local):

2:45 p.m.

Police say a fourth person has died as a result of gunfire in an apparent murder-suicide at an upscale beachfront hotel in Southeast Texas.

Galveston Police Capt. Josh Schirard says three people were found dead at the scene around 4:30 a.m. Monday at the San Luis (loo-EE’) Resort. Schirard says a fourth person, a woman, was discovered wounded and transported to a hospital, where she later died.

Schirard says another guest reported hearing a popping sound from a nearby room on the 8th floor and called the police.

Officers entered the locked room and found three bodies, plus the fourth person who was seriously wounded.

Galveston police didn’t immediately release the names of any of the four people. All had been staying together in the room where the bodies were found.

Police didn’t immediately release further details.

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11:06 a.m.

Police say three people were shot to death and a fourth was wounded in an apparent murder-suicide at an upscale beachfront hotel in Southeast Texas.

Galveston Police Capt. Josh Schirard says the shootings happened around 4:30 a.m. Monday at the San Luis (loo-EE’) Resort.

Schirard says another guest reported hearing a popping sound from a nearby room and called the police.

Officers entered the locked room and found three bodies, plus a fourth person who was seriously wounded. That person has been taken to a hospital.

Schirard says the four people shot had been staying together in the room where the bodies were found.

Police have not released their names or other details.

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