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2 searched in Forest Hill Car Wash Shooting, in which the local rapper, his young daughter, was killed

Forest Hill's police said she had identified a suspect in connection with the death of a local rapper and his young daughter in a car wash on Monday morning.

The police declined on Monday evening to publicly identify the alleged shooters, citing an ongoing investigation. Relatives who said after the shootout with NBC 5 languages, the victims identified as 30-year-old Ronnie Smith, musically as Lil Ronnie and his 5-year-old daughter.

According to a police statement, the officials were looking for the second suspect. However, it was not clear that he was identified on Monday evening.

The police were called to a shooting incident at 10:49 a.m. in the 6500 Block of the Forest Hill Drive around 10:49 a.m. when the officials arrived.

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A preliminary police investigation showed that two suspicious-black men who bore blue jeans and gray sweaters and a white four-door kia and approached Smith's vehicle, which was parked in a bay in the car wash. The police said the two men then opened Smith and his daughter before fleeing.

The police did not say whether they know what the motive for the shootout was or whether Smith knew the couple who opened the fire.

Video from the scene showed several Bullet evidence markings that indicate that several rounds were fired during the daily attack. A car vacuum was still in the vehicle while the police examined the incident.

The police said that the suspect they identified was the subject of an arrest warrant for the murder of capital murder, but they did not classify possible charges for the other man.

The Texas Rangers lead the investigation with the support of several agencies according to the explanation. The police call for everyone with information about the incident or about the suspect's whereabouts for the crime examination of the Forest Hill police authority under number 817-531-5250 or police investigations@foresthilltx.org.

The shooter has been coming less than two weeks since two people were killed and a third was wounded at a shootout on February 21 at a Forest Hill dealership. The alleged shooter, a former dealer employee, was arrested in connection with the murders.

Arrest when shooting, in which 2 were killed, 1 in the Forest Hill Business injured

The next day, a 38-year-old woman was fatally hit by a stray ball in the back yard of a house in Forest Hill.

“Keep our city in your prayers,” wrote Sonja Coleman, a former member of the Forest Hill city council, which runs for re -election, on Monday on Facebook. “Things really try it at the moment. Our city has to come together! “