4 injured by gunfire during a vigil for shooting victims

The Saturday night incident marks the city’s 4th mass shooting so far this year

Four people were wounded in a mass shooting Saturday night while holding a vigil at the same place where two others were shot the previous day, authorities said.

Saturday’s incident marks the fourth mass shooting in Dallas this year.

About 9 p.m. Saturday, a crowd was holding a vigil for the victims of a Friday shooting, where one person was killed and another was injured. A passenger from a passing car opened fired on the crowd Saturday, and some members of the crowd returned fire.

Four people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds, according to Dallas police. Their conditions were not immediately clear. Nobody has been arrested in relation to Saturday’s shooting, but the car is described as a white Chrysler, Dallas police said.

The Friday shooting was reported about 3:45 p.m. in the 7400 block of South Westmoreland Road in Dallas’ Red Bird neighborhood. Jacory Simpson, 23, was found shot inside a business. Simpson was taken to a hospital in critical condition.

Another man, 19-year-old Donavon Jones, was also taken to a hospital with gunshot wounds. Jones died the next day.

Police on Sunday said Simpson was in an argument with 20-year-old Taquan Cooks inside a parking lot in the area. Cooks shot and wounded Simpson, police said. Simpson then approached Jones, who was also at the parking lot, and shot him, according to police.

Authorities had previously said Simpson was shot by Cook while he was trying to leave the area after shooting Jones.

Both are facing charges; Cooks was arrested on a charge of assault with serious bodily injury and booked into the Dallas County jail. Simpson will face murder and weapons charges once he is released from the hospital, Dallas police said.

Early last Sunday, four people were killed in a Dallas apartment in what police said was related to a custody dispute. Two people were arrested on murder charges.

On Jan. 6, three people were killed and two wounded when a group was shot in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Far North Dallas. And one person was killed and three injured — including a 6-year-old child — in a Jan. 30 shooting in southeast Oak Cliff.

Police are working to determine if Friday’s and Saturday’s shootings are related.

Tom Fox/staff Photographer Church member Chad Lynd (second from right) led other members of The Potter’s House Christian Fellowship Church in prayer outside the Discount Food Mart at South Westmoreland Road and Gannon Lane in Dallas. Four people were wounded in a mass shooting Saturday night while holding a vigil at the same place where two others were shot the previous day. Members of the church, which is located on the back side of the building, tended to the people hit by gunfire.