{"id":9626,"date":"2025-10-18T07:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T07:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/9626\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T07:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T07:39:11","slug":"triple-murder-suspect-crashes-into-north-texas-buc-ees-before-shooting-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/9626\/","title":{"rendered":"Triple murder suspect crashes into North Texas Buc-ees before shooting himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">ENNIS, Texas \u2013 A suspect in an East Texas triple murder crashed into a Buc-ees store in North Texas before shooting himself in the head Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Henderson County Sheriff\u2019s Office said the murders happened early Friday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Authorities received a 911 call around 2:30 a.m. and responded to a home in the Cedar Creek Cove subdivision. When deputies arrived, they found five people who had been shot. A man and woman were found dead at the scene. Another woman would later die at a hospital in Gun Barrel City. Two other men were transported to UT Health Hospital in Tyler for treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Authorities began searching for the suspect, identified as 29-year-old Christopher Kyle Reid Jr. He was believed to be driving a maroon 2003 Dodge Caravan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">As deputies were searching for Reid, authorities in Ellis County responded to the Buc-ees in Ennis at around 5 a.m., where a vehicle had driven into the building. Authorities say the vehicle was a maroon 2003 Dodge Caravan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Ennis Police Department says a woman from Oklahoma was injured after she was pinned against a sales display by the vehicle. She was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">Authorities confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/triple-murder-suspect-crashes-into-ennis-buc-ees-shoots-himself-in-the-head\/3933482\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/triple-murder-suspect-crashes-into-ennis-buc-ees-shoots-himself-in-the-head\/3933482\/\">KXAS, the NBC affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth<\/a>, that the driver of the Caravan was Reid. Once the vehicle came to a stop inside the Buc-ees, Reid shot himself in the head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Reid is hospitalized in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Multiple agencies, including the Texas Rangers, are investigating the murders. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Ennis Police Department is investigating the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ENNIS, Texas \u2013 A suspect in an East Texas triple murder crashed into a Buc-ees store in North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8231,268,294,8230,8641,8232,636,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-9626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-buc-ees","9":"tag-crash","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-ellis-county","12":"tag-ennis","13":"tag-henderson-county","14":"tag-murder","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-texas-headlines","17":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}