said there is no need for blood donations, but food and donations can be given to the United Way of Midland.

Midland, a West Texas city with about 140,000 residents, sits in the heart of the state's oil region and was near the site of a deadly shooting rampage just six years ago. In that shooting, a gunman who had been fired from his oil services job killed seven people and wounded two dozen others while firing at random while driving around the Odessa and Midland areas.

Midland and Odessa are more than 300 miles west of Dallas-Fort Worth.

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