A Texas man has shot dead his daughter’s boyfriend and run them both over in his truck before turning the gun on himself.

Omar Soto, 22, was fatally shot in Arlington on Friday night as he left a movie theater with his girlfriend.

Police said the father of the young woman drove up to the couple before opening fire in the parking lot.

The woman was desperately trying to help Soto while he was lying on the ground when her father then ran over them both.

‘(The father) confronted them really quickly and just asked the boyfriend hey what’s your name. He responded what his name was, and then he shot him multiple times,’ Arlington Police Lt. Christopher Cook told Fox4.

‘He actually backed up after the shooting and went around an aisle and deliberately ran over both of them as they were sitting there.’

Police said Soto was already dead when they arrived and his girlfriend was seriously injured. She was rushed to a nearby hospital but was able to identify her father as the gunman to police.

Authorities located the father’s pickup just over two hours later on a nearby street.

He was found inside with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Police have confirmed that the man was the woman’s father, but have not released either of their names.

They are still investigating to determine what happened in the lead up to the fatal shooting.

Family members identified Soto as the victim over the weekend and set up a GoFundMe page for his family.

‘He was humble, smart, intelligent, full of life hopes and dreams and on his way to become a great architect,’ family members wrote.

Soto was a graduated of the University of Texas at Arlington and had been planning to get his master’s degree.