3 dead, 1 injured in central Texas stabbing

A man lethally wounded three people, including a 13-year-old young lady, in a little focal Texas city early Friday before driving officials on a vehicle pursuit and in the long run being captured, police said.

Sheriff's representatives in San Saba, a network of around 3,000 individuals 100 miles (160 kilometres) north-west of Austin, got a call around 4:30 a.m. from an 18-year-elderly person who said she was one of four individuals cut inside a home, said Sgt. Bryan Washko of the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Officials showed up to locate a 62-year-elderly person, a 44-year-elderly person and the young lady dead, Washko said. He was unable to give the names of the people in question or the 22-year-old suspect. He likewise said it's indistinct how they are associated and that no intention is known now. The Texas Rangers were exploring.

The young lady was a seventh-grade understudy at a neighbourhood school, which was open and offering to direct, said San Saba Independent School District Superintendent Wayne Kelly.

"It's hit us truly hard, " Kelly said. "When there are just 200 children in middle school, they will in general know one another." Kelly portrayed the stabbings as a "local circumstance" however said he was unable to expand. He declined to name the understudy.

Minutes after the stabbings, Washko stated, the suspect fled in a vehicle having a place with one of the people in question. Police pursue and tailed him for 20 miles (32 kilometres) into the city of Goldthwaite, where he collided with the mass of a senior residential community and was captured, he said. Nobody, including the suspect, was harmed in the accident.

Washko said the 22-year-old was being held Friday in the Mills County prison however it's not yet clear what charges he faces. The Mills County's sheriff didn't promptly react to a solicitation for input.

The woman who endures the wounding was hospitalised in essential condition, Washko said.