Grayson County sheriff's office says suspect in Highway 377 shooting has not been located

The Grayson County Sheriff's Office said its deputies and assisting law enforcement agencies are investigating a shooting connected to more than one location along Highway 377, and that the suspect in the case has not been located. In a statement posted to the department's official Facebook page, the office described the investigation as active.

Reports that persons of interest in the shooting had been found could not be verified for this article. The sheriff's office statement available at publication made no mention of anyone connected to the case being located. The statement said the suspect had not yet been found and that the investigation remained open. Because no source of record confirmed that anyone tied to the case had been located, that claim is reported here as unverified.

That Facebook post was the department's public account of record for the incident when this article was published. Beyond its description of multiple scenes along the highway, few details appeared in the records verified for this report. Those records did not include addresses, the names of anyone involved, an account of injuries or a timeline of events. They made no mention of an arrest. The verified records also did not say whether any of the locations fell inside a city's limits.

The sheriff's post named the law enforcement agencies assisting with the investigation. Southmayd's police department was among them. The statement did not describe what part each assisting agency played in the case, and among the records reviewed for this article, no assisting agency had released a separate account of the shooting.

On its website, Grayson County describes the sheriff as the county's chief law enforcement officer. The same page says the sheriff's office is the responding agency for unincorporated parts of the county and for three small towns that have no police department of their own.

Southmayd handles nonemergency police business through the county's dispatch center. According to the city's website, residents who need a Southmayd officer for a matter that is not an emergency reach one through Grayson County Dispatch at 903-813-4408.

This report draws on the sheriff's office statement posted to Facebook, on Grayson County's description of the sheriff's duties on the county website and on the city of Southmayd's website. As of the department's post, the investigation remained open and the suspect had not been located. GvilleTX Newsroom will update this story as officials release additional information.