Female singer is shot while signing autographs onstage following Dallas concert [Video]

09:50 EST 05 Nov 2024, updated 11:18 EST 05 Nov 2024

A Dallas singer has been hospitalized after being shot in the chest while signing autographs following a theatre concert. 

Jada Arnell Thomas, 26, was left wounded after she performed at the Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Downtown Dallas on November 2. 

The theatre’s founder and director Curtis King, who witnessed the incident, recalled: ‘It was a packed house, people were in line getting autographs and we heard this shot. It was unreal. It was like everything was in slow motion’.

After the shooting, employees alleged that they recognized the suspect as a fellow singer at the venue a decade earlier.

‘They said, “Mr. King, she has performed here at the Black Academy.” She was in a summer program 10-12 years ago.”

Despite that revelation, police have not yet commented on a motive or a relationship between the victim and the shooter.  

Thomas was quickly taken to a …