{"id":620036,"date":"2026-05-02T22:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/620036\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T22:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:45:08","slug":"2-dead-10-hurt-in-overnight-shooting-in-amarillo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/620036\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead, 10 hurt in overnight shooting in Amarillo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMARILLO, Texas (KVII) \u2014 Two people were killed and 10 others were hurt during an overnight shooting in Amarillo, according to police.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Amarillo police investigate a deadly shooting at the Westminster Apartments, located at 2415 Coulter Street, on May 2, 2026 (Steve Douglass\/KVII)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f2689d64-c706-4a18-ad40-eb5f0135abd4-2638.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Amarillo police investigate a deadly shooting at the Westminster Apartments, located at 2415 Coulter Street, on May 2, 2026 (Steve Douglass\/KVII)<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday around 2 a.m., police responded to a shooting at the Westminster Apartments located at Coulter Street and Westgate Pkwy.<\/p>\n<p>ABC 7 News photojournalist Steve Douglass, who lives several blocks from the crime scene, was woken up by what he described as &#8220;machine gun fire&#8221; followed by dozens more shots.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7amarillo.com\/news\/local\/suspect-accused-firing-42-shots-at-amarillo-home-indicted-federal-weapons-charge-kicked-out-party-314-mississippi-street-azaiah-zuniga-valle-ar-15-hereford-walmart-radical-firearms-rf-15-rifle-machinegun-conversion-device-mcd-atf-adan-lamas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Suspect accused of firing 42 shots at Amarillo home indicted on federal weapons charge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A male was pronounced dead at the scene. Nine people were taken to the hospital, with five of them in critical condition. One of them died at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>APD released the name of one of the deceased, Ezekiel Rudy Almazan, 17, and listed the other as &#8220;16-year-old male.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Amarillo police, a group of &#8220;juveniles and young adults&#8221; attending a party at another location, moved to the apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p>Police said several people who were asked to leave the original party &#8220;later followed attendees&#8221; to the Westminster Apartments. They attempted to enter an apartment and opened fire with a &#8220;rifle-style weapon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an afternoon update on May 2, APD said there are two suspects, ages and relation to guests are unknown and that no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>APD said no weapons were recovered directly from suspects, but a Glock 9mm handgun was located on a landing outside Apartment 244. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe multiple weapons were used based on cartridge casings recovered in the alley south of the apartment complex. <\/p>\n<p>Police are asking those in the Belmar area to check doorbell cameras and residential surveillance for unusual activity during the early morning hours. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7amarillo.com\/news\/local\/2-teens-accused-of-shooting-from-cadillac-with-pistol-converted-into-machine-gun-clovis-new-mexico-clovis-police-department-glock-switch-conversion-device-automatic-weapon-ar-15-rifle-shell-casings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2 teens accused of shooting from Cadillac with pistol converted into machine gun<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (3)<\/p>\n<p>The deadly shooting comes less than six weeks after <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7amarillo.com\/news\/local\/amarillo-police-investigate-three-separate-shootings-press-conference-planned-later-today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">six people were killed and 10 more were injured<\/a> in four different shootings on March 22 in Amarillo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMARILLO, Texas (KVII) \u2014 Two people were killed and 10 others were hurt during an overnight shooting in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-620036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}