One person is dead and another is injured after police in Garland said the two were shot and their vehicle crashed into an apartment building just after midnight Sunday, causing a fire that led to an evacuation of the apartment building.
Police and firefighters arrived in the 4600 block of Saturn Road around 12:30 a.m. Sunday and began evacuating nearby apartments as a fire from the vehicle spread to the building, according to a news release from police.
While they were evacuating the building and fighting the fire, first responders found the two victims in the vehicle and they were by ambulance to a nearby hospital, according to police.
One man, 22-year-old Quincy Lee Branch of Dallas, died at the hospital, according to police. A 19-year-old man from Fort Worth, whose name has not been released, was still being treated for a non-life threatening injury and was expected to survive as of 9:30 am. Sunday.
Police said they are investigating Branch's death as a murder and asked anybody with information to contact investigators at 972-485-4840.
