Police said the suspect knew the victims and was arrested after a brief foot chase.
CARROLLTON, Texas — A 69-year-old man shot five people Tuesday morning at a shopping center and an apartment building north of Dallas, killing two and injuring three others, after a dispute tied to business dealings, police said.
The shootings led to two crime scenes in Carrollton, a Dallas suburb with a large Korean American business district. Police identified the suspect as Seung Ho Han and said he was taken into custody at a nearby grocery store. Carrollton Police Chief Roberto Arredondo said the attack was not random and that the suspect knew the people who were fatally shot. The victims’ names had not been released Tuesday evening, and officials said the three surviving victims were in stable condition.
The first shooting happened just before 10 a.m. at K Towne Plaza, a shopping center near State Highway 121 and West Hebron Parkway in the city’s Koreatown area. Officers arrived and found four adults with gunshot wounds. One adult male was dead at the scene, police said. Two adult males and one adult female were taken to hospitals and were listed in stable condition. Arredondo said the people at the shopping center had gathered for a business purpose. “It was a known business relationship,” Arredondo said. “We’re still trying to work to identify what caused his actions.”
While officers were investigating at the shopping center, police were called to a second shooting at an apartment complex roughly 4 miles away, in the 2700 block of Old Denton Road. Responding officers found another adult male dead inside an apartment. Investigators later determined the same suspect carried out both shootings, police said. Han was arrested at an H Mart grocery store after officers found his vehicle and followed him. Arredondo said undercover officers used police technology to locate the vehicle and the suspect. He said Han ran briefly before officers took him into custody without further violence.
Police said Han later acknowledged in an interview with detectives that he shot all five victims. Investigators said he told them he was angry because of financial disagreements related to their business dealings. Officials did not release more details about the business dispute, the kind of meeting held at the plaza or the relationship between Han and each victim. Authorities also did not immediately say whether a weapon had been recovered, whether Han had a lawyer or what charges prosecutors would file. Police said there was no continuing threat to the public after the arrest.
The shootings drew a large response from local, state and federal law enforcement. Officers with guns drawn moved through K Towne Plaza after the first reports came in, and investigators marked evidence around the parking lot. Agents from the FBI were among those collecting evidence at the shopping center. The Texas Department of Public Safety also assisted Carrollton police. The work stretched across the plaza, the apartment scene and the area near H Mart, where Han was arrested. Police asked people to avoid the area while officers searched, secured witnesses and gathered evidence.
K Towne Plaza sits in a busy section of Carrollton that has become a major hub for Korean restaurants, markets and other businesses in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Carrollton has about 130,000 residents and is about 20 miles north of Dallas. More than 4,000 residents are of Korean descent, according to census figures cited by local and national reports. The neighborhood has grown over the past two decades with markets, restaurants, churches and retail centers that serve Korean American residents across North Texas. H Mart, where police said Han was arrested, is one of the area’s best-known anchors.
John Jun, who is active in the Korean American community, said the shooting shocked residents and business owners who know the area as a close commercial and cultural center. “We’re shocked,” Jun said. “We’re not immune to something like this happening, but we are very generally a peaceful community that works hard.” He said violence tied to personal or business conflict can hit any neighborhood, but the scale of the attack left many people shaken. Local business owners and customers watched as police tape blocked parts of the plaza and officers moved between storefronts.
The case remained under active investigation Tuesday evening. Police had not released the victims’ names, had not announced formal charges and had not provided a court schedule. Detectives were expected to continue interviewing witnesses, reviewing records tied to the business dispute and processing evidence from the shopping center, the apartment and the grocery store arrest scene. Officials said more information would be released as it became available through the Carrollton Police Department and prosecutors.
The shootings stood Tuesday as a targeted attack with one suspect in custody, two people dead and three others recovering in hospitals. The next major step is the filing of criminal charges and the release of additional victim information after family notifications are complete.
Author note: Last updated May 5, 2026.