The rural Oklahoma city rocked by the drive-by shooting of Australian baseball player Chris Lane six years ago is in mourning again after three people were shot dead in a dramatic incident outside a Wal-Mart.
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Duncan authorities confirmed the shooting took place on Monday in the Wal-Mart car park.
One woman and two men died.
Duncan Police Chief Danny Ford said one of the people killed was believed to be the shooter who was armed with a semi-automatic handgun.
"Two were in a car, one's out beside the car," Chief Ford told the Duncan Banner newspaper.
"We have a pistol there, laying out beside one.
"We have multiple gunshots to the windshield."
Duncan local and Army veteran Aaron Helton said he was in the car park and heard nine shots and saw a man holding a handgun.
Mr Helton said another man, possibly a member of the public attempting to diffuse the situation, approached and put a pistol to the gunman's head and told him to stop.
The gunman is believed to have then turned the gun on himself.
Local schools went into lockdown and the close-knit community that still struggles to come to terms with why three teenagers would randomly select Mr Lane, shoot him in the back and leave him to die on the side of a residential street.
Mr Lane's murder took place just a short drive from the Wal-Mart.
At the time the community and local enforcement were shocked by Mr Lane's death, with violent crime in the city rare.
In 2013 a then 16-year-old Chancey Luna and 15-year-old friend James Edwards were in a car driven by 17-year-old Michael Jones.
They randomly spotted Lane, a 22-year-old from Melbourne who had a scholarship to study and play baseball at Oklahoma's East Central University, jogging along a street.
Lane had never met the teenagers.
They drove up behind Lane and Luna fired a .22 revolver out of the car window into Lane's back.
The trio sped away and left Lane to die in the gutter.
Luna was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for first degree murder.
Jones was sentenced to life, but could be eligible for release after 38 years.
Edwards entered a guilty plea to an accessory to murder charge and had 10 years of his 25-year sentence suspended.
"Duncan once again suffers from gun violence," Oklahoma representative Forrest Bennett tweeted after Monday's Wal-Mart shooting.
"As we learn more about the motivation of the shooter, looking for ways to prevent this from happening again."
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