That is odd, but in other parts of the story it stressed that no neighbors heard anything, so they might be trying to make a point that the circumstances are odd since no one heard anything, but the guns didn't have silencers.
It also sounds like there were several empty apartments near where the shootings happened.
We do have a good idea of what took place and why," said Sgt. Robert Eberling of the Grapevine Police Department. Sgt. Eberling declined to reveal the suspected motive until autopsies of the victims are complete.
Sgt. Eberling also confirmed Monday that the suspected shooter, who was among the dead inside the apartment, was wearing a Santa Claus costume. Police said the middle-aged man did not live at the apartment but was visiting. Police said all of the victims were related by blood or marriage, but did not all live at the apartment.
You’re right. I do see the logic of that now. Jornolistic standards of communicating have sunk so low it requires a good deal of guesswork and intuition to figure out what they might have been meaning to say. This article isn’t even on the bad end of the scale.