Two dead, three wounded in targeted shooting at Texas shopping center

A routine stop at K Towne Plaza turned deadly when police say a 69-year-old man opened fire on adults he knew, leaving two dead and three wounded in a suburban Dallas shopping district built around everyday errands and business.

Carrollton police responded shortly before 10 a.m. CT on May 5, 2026, and Chief Roberto Arredondo called the scene "complicated," saying officers were dealing with "multiple scenes" across K Towne Plaza and a nearby shopping center in the Koreatown area. All five people shot were adults. Three survivors were in stable condition as investigators worked to sort out what happened before the gunfire started.

Police identified the suspect as Seung Han Ho, 69, and said the victims had been meeting with him for a business purpose. Arredondo described their connection as a "known business relationship" and said investigators were still trying to determine the suspect’s motive or "causes." Authorities said the attack was not random and that the victims knew the shooter, shifting the case away from an indiscriminate public rampage and toward a dispute tied to a personal or commercial relationship.

Ho was arrested about 4 miles, or 6 kilometers, away at a grocery store after a short foot chase. FBI agents were among the law enforcement personnel collecting evidence in the parking lot as detectives traced the movements that brought the group together at the shopping center. The arrest came quickly, but it did not erase the deeper concern raised by the shooting: a conflict that police say was targeted still spilled into a place where families, shoppers and workers were going about a normal day.

The shooting landed in a part of Carrollton that has changed over the past two decades, as the Koreatown corridor expanded around businesses such as H Mart, restaurants and Korean churches. Carrollton has about 130,000 residents and is about 20 miles north of Dallas, with more than 4,000 residents of Korean descent. John Jun, active in the Korean American community, said the community was shocked but generally peaceful, underscoring how a private dispute can turn a public commercial center into a mass-casualty scene.