Woman killed, 7 others hurt in shooting

DALLAS >> One person was killed and seven others were injured when a shooter opened fire early Saturday inside a crowded northwest Dallas nightclub, police said.

Police were called about 1:30 a.m. to Pryme Bar just south of Northwest Highway and between Interstate 35E and Loop 12, and found eight people shot — four men and four women, all in their 20s, police said.

Officers determined that a disturbance broke out between two groups inside, and after a witness tried to intervene the shooter pulled out a gun and began firing.

The gunman, who was described as a Black man in his early 20s with dreads and a blue shirt with a hat and jacket, is at large, police said.

All eight victims were taken to local hospitals. Daisy Navarrete, 21, of Plano died at the hospital, while conditions of the seven others ranged from good to critical, police said.

Navarrete had just turned 21 on Monday and was full of life, said her mother, Judith Gonzalez, also of Plano. She was born and raised in Plano and worked at Fedex, but hoped to one day go to nursing school.

“She was a beautiful, happy girl,” Gonzalez said. “She had a lot to live for. But not anymore because now she’s gone.

“This has been very, very hard,” she added. “We need the police to get the person that did this. This cannot be left like this.”

Gonzalez said Navarrete went to the club “just to have fun.” She said it was the nightclub’s responsibility to make sure the environment was safe inside, and she expressed anger at police and Pryme Bar for not taking steps to prevent the violence.