Overview
- The parking-lot shooting at Texarkana Aluminum, which erupted around 6:37 a.m. Tuesday, left an employee and the gunman dead and the gunman’s wife injured.
- Police said the violence began as a domestic confrontation between Wendell Lane Champion Jr. and his wife, and employee Eddie Ray Hill Jr., 48, was shot when he tried to intervene.
- Candis Jolene Champion, 37, an employee at the plant, is being treated at a Texarkana hospital and is in stable condition.
- Court records show Champion was convicted of first-degree murder in Harris County in 2010 and released on parole in 2025.
- Nash police reported no other suspects or ongoing public threat as Texarkana Aluminum deployed a crisis-response team for employees.