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According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, a man drove into a Texas mall after a 19-mile police pursuit, striking four people before being shot by police officers.

A police officer shot the suspect after the chase took him into the mall, said Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Bryan Washko said at a press conference on Saturday.

A Texas Highway Patrol trooper attempted to stop a pickup truck around 5 p.m. Central Time, Washko said.

It was determined that the man driving the vehicle may have been driving drunk, Washko said.

After exiting the highway, the suspect entered the Killeen Mall parking lot, where he drove through the glass doors of the main entrance of a JCPenney store, according to Washko.

“The suspect drove through the doors and continued through the JCPenney store, striking several people,” he said.

Four people were injured by the pickup truck driving through the mall and taken to a hospital, and a fifth went to the hospital alone, Washko said.

Officers and local police followed the truck on foot through the mall and exchanged fire with the suspect to end the threat, Washko said.

“There are people here who are shopping for their families, their children, their friends, loved ones and things like that, which of course we don’t like to see, and we pray for their recovery,” Washko said of the victims.

Killeen police spokeswoman Ofelia Miramontez told the Killeen Daily Herald: “A pursuit came from Belton,” a town about 30 kilometers east of Killeen.

Nathan Carrasco told CNN that he was sitting in his car with his friends in the Killeen Mall parking lot when they saw a truck drive through the JCPenney door and hit people.

Carrasco said two police vehicles chased the truck, and just before officers nearly cornered the truck, the truck drove through the department store.

Carrasco and his friends jumped out of the car to make sure everyone was OK, he said.

“There were people lying on the floor with glass everywhere,” Carrasco said, adding that people rushed into the store to help a bleeding woman and a young girl.

Rose and Will Parker told CNN they were near the coffee shop near the JCPenney when they heard several gunshots and saw people running.

“I grabbed my wife and we went to the cafe. We locked ourselves in a back room,” Will Parker said.

They had been at the cafe for about 15 minutes when a security guard escorted them out of the mall.

“It was chaos,” Parker said. “I am grateful to the gentleman, the security guard, who helped us.”

Washko said authorities have not yet identified the suspect. “We have to find out who he was, where he came from and why he ran,” he said. “All of these questions need to be answered.”

Killeen is about 150 miles south of Dallas and is home to the Army’s Fort Cavazos, formerly Fort Hood.

This story has been updated with additional information.