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After shooting at police during a car chase through the Waco area, authorities think a man shot himself before his SUV crashed in the parking lot of Parkview Baptist Church early Saturday morning. The man was suspected of shooting and killing a West resident at about 8:45 p.m. Friday in Hill County, McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara said.

McNamara said a woman spotted an unknown SUV on her Hill County property and called her son to inquire about the car.

“This man was sitting on a woman’s property in Hill County, so she called her son, who is 59 years old,” McNamara said. “So, when her son walks up to the car, (the man in the car) just shot him and killed him, then he just took off.”

The victim in the Friday night shooting was Dennis Pavlas, 59, of West, Hill County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy R.D. White wrote in a press release. Pavlas was taken to Baylor Scott & White Hillcrest Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 10 p.m.

Hill County authorities distributed a description of the vehicle involved in the shooting to law enforcement in the region and warned the suspect was armed, White said.