HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — One person was killed and another is in custody in an act of workplace violence at a USPS Processing Facility in Missouri City late Monday night, according to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

Both people involved were employees.

The violence erupted at the postal facility located at 611 Highway 90 Alt.

Authorities with Missouri City police and USPS first responded to the facility for a report of an active shooter, said Dana Carter, an inspector with the Houston Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

“I can confirm that there was one individual involved. That individual is in custody and the community is safe,” Carter told ABC13. “At this time, there is one victim. That person is deceased, and again, this is an active investigation. We are going to continue to work through that process as we get ready to notify next of kin.”

The Postal Inspection Service didn’t release many other details, citing the ongoing investigation.

ABC13 is still working to learn how many employees were inside the facility at the time, though we’re told the workers are accounted for and safe.

Officials also would not say whether the suspect and the victim were a man or a woman.

It wasn’t immediately known what impact, if any, the deadly shooting could have on mail delivery.

When asked, Carter said the inspection service’s role is to focus on law enforcement, rather than operations.

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A Republican state representative thinks Missouri should follow the example set by the GOP nationally and allow people convicted of felonies to be candidates for office.

State Rep. Michael Davis of Belton prefiled a bill for the 2025 legislative session that he has named the “Donald J. Trump Election Qualification Act.” The bill would repeal the state’s ban on felons seeking office and allow it “if otherwise qualified.”

“I think it’ll draw some attention, which so far it has,” Davis said in an interview with The Independent.

Davis, who will be starting his third term in the House in January, said he has tried to lift the restriction, first enacted in 2015, in the past. A bill he filed two years ago to remove the barrier to office was referred to a committee but didn’t receive a hearing.

Talking with people opposed to his bill can be awkward, he said.

“Having conversations now, when I bring up the topic, a lot of them are squeamish about the idea of having felons in office, but then, if they’re Republican, I remind them that they probably voted for one,” Davis said.

Trump was convicted May 30 in New York on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Sentencing was postponed in September until after the election and postponed again, this time indefinitely, after he won. 

Because Missouri law cannot modify the qualifications for federal office, people with felony convictions can file for U.S. Senate and House of Representatives seats but not for state or local office.

Putting Trump’s name in the bill is a way of reminding his colleagues of that difference, Davis said.

“A lot of people don’t don’t think about the fact that Donald Trump, if he met all the other requirements, if he was a Missouri resident, he could not run for state representative or state Senate,” Davis said. “He would be precluded from running for these offices, but was able to be re-elected president of the United States. So I think that at least causes people to start thinking about the issue a little more than they might otherwise.”

The state law was upheld in June in a Missouri Supreme Court decision barring a candidate with a felony conviction from running for county commission. In a St. Charles County legislative race this year, a judge dismissed a challenge based on the law because the candidate seeking to have an opponent removed from the ballot could not provide proof of a guilty plea.

Voters can distinguish between prior acts that disqualify someone from a position of trust and those that do not, Davis said.

“If it’s someone who has a felony conviction that would be unappealing to most voters, they will not elect that individual,” Davis said. “But someone who maybe made some sort of financial indiscretion or had drug possession or some of the smaller crimes that are still felony convictions, I think the public is able to discern that, and they did that with the president.”

The adage attributed to Norm Stewart is not in peril.

Missouri basketball will not have to spend a dime in Kansas.

But the Tigers will have to pay a fine after fans stormed the court after their 76-67 win over the then-No. 1-ranked Kansas Jayhawks on Sunday in Columbia. The SEC fined Mizzou $250,000, which will go toward the league’s post-graduate scholarship fund instead of the Kansas athletic department, because KU is an out-of-conference opponent.

If Missouri had stormed the court against another SEC school, the money would have gone to the opposing team.

The fine is part of the SEC’s recently updated field- and court-storming guidelines. Schools are fined $100,000 for a first offense, $250,000 for a second offense and $500,000 for every offense that follows. Each team began anew at the beginning of the 2023 football season.

Sunday was Mizzou’s second offense since the SEC upped the fines on court- and field-storming infractions ahead of the 2023 football season. Missouri fans stormed Faurot Field after Harrison Mevis’ walk-off, 61-yard field goal to beat Kansas State in September 2023. That infraction cost the school $100,000, also to the SEC’s post-graduate scholarship fund, since K-State also is a nonconference opponent.

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Sunday’s incident was a heftier fine.

Best guesses suggest the Tigers will gladly hand over the money.

Mizzou cocach Dennis Gates was even ready to encourage the fans to come onto the court.

“I got upset at the (scorer’s) table for making an announcement to tell our fans not to rush the court. You’ve got to be kidding me,” Gates said. “I was about to, in-game, take the mic, and say, ‘Rush the damn court.’ For real. I just think they deserve that moment.”

With six seconds left in the game, with the fans already shifting toward Norm Stewart Court, Gates called a timeout so that the Jayhawks could get a headstart on leaving the floor.

“We’ve been court-stormed on a lot. Usually I’m the one that calls a timeout and just tells the guys, ‘Stay on the sidelines.’ But that was a classy move by Dennis. I mean, let’s just call it like it is. That was a class move,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “Because somebody could have got hurt, because that was a real court storm. Mizzou played great today, but that court storm may have been even better than Mizzou played. That was a big time court storm, and I was glad he did that, because that gave us a chance to get to the side. That was a class move.”

“Sportsmanship. That’s all it is: sportsmanship. And that’s how I would want to be treated when I become a Hall of Fame coach and I’m the number-one team in the country,” Gates said. “I will want my opponent to respectfully do the same. And no matter what, no matter what’s going on, I’m always going to treat people how I want to be treated, regardless. And I think player safety is important.”