The gunman in the Odessa shooting called the FBI and police after being fired from his job and prior to his shooting rampage.

Police said that Seth Aaron Ator, 36, made contact with authorities prior to the slayings that killed seven and injured 19 more. Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke said Monday that both Ator and his employer called police after he was fired from his job, both complaining about each other for "disagreement over the firing."

Gerke said that he also called the FBI tipline but made "no threats of any type of violence."





Ator was reportedly fired from his job at a trucking company in the area just hours before the shooting began Saturday afternoon in the cities of Odessa and Midland, Texas. After shooting a Texas Department of Public Safety officer who had pulled him over, Ator then began a high-speed chase, firing at motorists with an AR-15 indiscriminately.

The chase ended in a shootout at the parking lot of a movie theater in Odessa where Ator was shot and killed by law enforcement.