A police chase led to a horrific car crash at a Killeen Mall in Killeen, Texas, where multiple shoppers are injured and the driver has been shot dead.

Authorities have now identified a pickup truck driver they say fled police and careened through the doors of a JCPenney store at a Texas mall, injuring five people before he was fatally shot by officers.

Shoppers scrambled for safety as the pickup truck careened "for several hundred yards" into the mall, police said.

Authorities in Texas say law enforcement has fatally shot a fleeing motorist who drove into a JCPenney at a busy shopping mall Saturday

Authorities in Texas say a pickup truck driver fleeing police careened through the doors of a JCPenney store, injuring five people before he was fatally shot by law enforcement officers at a busy mall.

Five people were hurt after a man fleeing troopers drove a truck through the entrance of a mall in Killeen, Texas, the Texas Department of Safety says.