A man opened fire outside a hair salon in the Koreatown section of Dallas Wednesday afternoon, hitting three Korean women, according to police.
The women, who have not been publicly identified, suffered non-life threatening wounds, the Dallas Police Department said.
The suspect, described as a Black man between 5′7″ an 5′10″ with a thin build, curly medium length hair and a connecting beard, walked into the hair salon around 2:20 p.m. and began firing, then fled in a maroon minivan.
The victims, reportedly the salon owner, an employee and a customer, according to WFAA, were transported to the hospital are expected to be OK.
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“When he came in, he shouted something that we haven’t figured out yet, and then he started shooting,” Dallas Police Sgt. Warren Mitchell said during a press conference Wednesday night, according Fox 4.
Mitchell said there are no early indications that this was a hate crime, but that police have not yet ruled that out.
A nearby shop owner told Fox 4 that there had been a dispute earlier in the day at the salon when the stylists told a Black woman they didn’t know how to cut her hair, but it’s unclear if that’s related to the shooting.
A spokesperson for the Dallas Police Department did not have updates when reached by the Daily News Thursday.
Wednesday’s shooting comes barely a year after the Atlanta spa shootings, during which 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long fatally shot eight people, including six Asian women. He later claimed he was suffering from a sex addiction and blamed the spas.
Anyone with the salon shooting is asked to contact Detective Timothy Johnston at 214-671-3523 or [email protected]. A $5,000 reward is being offer for information called into Crime Stoppers that leads to an arrest and indictment. Crime Stoppers can be reached at 214-373-TIPS.
