DALLAS — Three more people were killed overnight Friday.
The cases could put the total number of homicides at more than 30 in the month of May.
Police responded at about midnight Friday in the 3000 block of Park Row Avenue, just west of Fair Park. Officers said a man was found shot in the parking lot. He was taken to to the hospital, where he later died.
In southwest Dallas, witnesses found another man shot in a parking lot in the 8000 block of Marvin D Love Freeway near West Wheatland Road. The witnesses drove the man to the hospital, where he later died.
Police are investigating a third deadly case in southeast Dallas. Officers were called at about 3:30 a.m. to the 2300 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard at Highway 175. Officials said a man was leaving a check cashing business when another man came up and shot him, took the money and ran away.
No arrests have been made in any of the cases.
Police said they only have 13 detectives working these cases. The police department has been dealing with staffing issues for years. As the summer months approach, officers said they are trying to get ahead of a spike in violent crime.
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