Elderly suspect accused of shooting man at Texas band competition

Authorities arrested an 83-year-old man on Saturday evening who opened fire during a drumline competition at a southeast Texas high school. The suspected shooter injured one attendee in the auditorium before a parent tackled him, according to a Saturday statement from Pasadena Independent School District Superintendent DeeAnn Powell. Several more bystanders helped detain the suspected shooter before police arrived, Pasadena police said in a Saturday statement. A man in his late 20s was hospitalized for a gunshot wound to the shoulder and his condition has stabilized, police added.

What is known about the shooter? Authorities later identified Dennis Erwin Brandl as the suspected shooter in a Sunday media release. Brandl felt he and his wife were being chased and feared he would be killed, police said. Brandl left his home in Spring, Texas, and drove more than 30 miles to Pasadena Memorial High School, where he stopped and shot the victim, authorities said.

The hospitalized man told police he had never met the suspect before, and school officials said Brandl had no ties to the competition. Brandl now faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and is currently in jail without bond.

Dig deeper: Read my report from late January about a fatal high school shooting in Tennessee.