BRUCEVILLE-EDDY, Texas — Authorities from multiple law enforcement agencies are combing the area around a remote central Texas television studio where a morning meteorologist was shot in a parking lot after an argument.
The Texas Department of Public Safety said the shooting occurred about 9:15 a.m. Wednesday outside KCEN-TV's rural studio on Interstate 35 near Bruceville-Eddy, 75 miles north of Austin.
The station website reported that the victim, on-air meteorologist Patrick Crawford, backed his car away from the shooter and drove up to a highway construction crew that called 911. Jim Hice, the station's news director, said Crawford was wounded in the shoulder and the abdomen.
Crawford underwent surgery at a Temple hospital. A hospital spokesman said he's in fair condition.
Crawford worked from 2007 to 2010 at KHBS, the ABC affiliate in Fort Smith, as a morning meteorologist, according to his personal website.
The shooter fled. No motive has been released.