"The motive here is inexcusable. ... Ugly, impulsive violence and something that we should not accept as a community," Chief Birkenfeld said.

People were gathered in the entrance to a nightclub in Amarillo when a vehicle pulled up at about 2:05 a.m. on Jan. 26 and a gunman exited the vehicle, opening fire into a large crowd with a rifle, the Amarillo Police Department said in a statement.

Two people suspected of being involved in the shooting early Sunday morning were arrested and charged with murder, according to police.

Amarillo police are investigating a shooting at a nightclub that left one person dead and nine others injured.

Police said the shooter exited the vehicle and opened fire into a crowd with a rifle before fleeing the scene.

Officials with the Amarillo Police Department released information regarding a shooting resulting in nine injured at a nightclub in Amarillo on early Sunday morning.

Three people were arrested following a mass shooting at a nightclub in the Texas Panhandle that police say might've stemmed from an earlier altercation

One person was killed and eight others were injured early Sunday in a shooting outside a downtown Amarillo nightclub, police say. Two people were arrested and charged with murder.