Drive-by shooting leaves 4 people injured outside northeast Houston convenience store, HPD says
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Four people were injured in a drive-by shooting outside of a convenience store in northeast Houston Tuesday evening.
The shooting comes just days after five people were shot outside a nightclub in northwest Harris County over the weekend.
At about 6:46 p.m. Tuesday, police received a call about a shooting at the Sun Food Store at 6729 Lockwood Drive.
When officers arrived, they found three men and a woman with injuries, the Houston Police Department said. A 60-year-old woman was shot twice in the leg, a 40-year-old man was shot once in the foot, a 36-year-old man was injured by shrapnel in his leg, and a 29-year-old man had a bullet graze wound in his leg.
All four victims were taken to area hospitals. They are all expected to survive, police said.
According to HPD, a black truck turned southbound on Lockwood, and shots were fired as it drove by. It is unclear how many shooters were in the vehicle, but officers believe at least two were involved. HPD added that shell casings found at the scene suggest a handgun and rifle were used.
"The victims were standing just outside the store as the truck drove by, fired at our victims, striking all four of them," Executive Senior Chief Larry Satterwhite said. "As you can imagine, they had to scramble to get out of the way. Some of them went down."
A description of the suspects was not immediately available. Police said the truck involved is described as a black, four-door truck with silver rims. Investigators are also looking at surveillance footage.
The drive-by shooting is very similar to a shooting that happened on Sunday. Three women and two men were shot around 2 a.m. while standing outside a club in northwest Harris County, deputies said. One of those five victims, a man, died.
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Investigators said the same thing happened -- multiple shooters in a vehicle showed up and just started shooting into the crowded parking lot.
Family members of two of the women who were shot told ABC13 they are recovering.
As of Wednesday morning, no one has been arrested in either of the shootings. Between both incidents, a total of nine people were shot, and one person is dead.
ABC13 spoke with Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez about these types of shootings with multiple victims.
"Unfortunately, here in Harris County, these incidents involving multi victims is becoming more and more prevalent and also very concerning. This is something that is happening across the country when I talk to other police executives, but it's very concerning to us. Also, the amount of firepower that we're seeing... It's extremely deadly," Gonzalez said.
So, what can be done? Gonzalez calls it a multi-prong approach.
"It's a matter of just trying to find evidence-based approaches, seeing what works, being mobile in our response. Nowadays, there's almost this feeling that there's no accountability, and without accountability, people just kind of keep repeating the same things. And so it's a multi-prong approach that's needed, but again, we are going to continue to do our part to see how we can continue to do better," Gonzalez said.
Anyone with information is urged to contact HPD at 713-884-3131 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
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