I can't reach the Texas Offender website but a buck says he's a convicted felon.
https://texas.arrests.org/Arrests/Christopher_Ward_13478003/
2009, DWI, open container, carrying prohibited weapon. $2500 bond.
That may or may not be an accurate report regarding the same Cris Ward who I posted a photo of and FB page screen capture. In any case, people are now saying the shooter's name wasn't Cris Ward. That A Cris Ward was in fact one of the victims.
I also read that the killer wasn't from the town where the shooting occurred. Yet the FB page says Ward *was* from that town. Also, someone on one of these threads said he/she heard reports that the shooter was "brown" skinned.