Ed Gonzalez, Harris County sheriff
this morning just after 2:00 AM,
our Harris County Sheriff's Office deputies
responded to the shooting in a parking
lot outside of some type of club bar.
What they learned was that approximately
5 people had been shot at all have been
transported to hospitals at this point.
One of the persons,
one of the victims has been confirmed
deceased and the other four we're still
trying to determine the exact nature
of her wounds and and their condition,
but at least one has been confirmed
already and we know again a total of
about five people that were shot.
The information we have right now is very
preliminary. We believe there
may have been a vehicle that
pulled up right around the.
2:00 AM time frame there were
multiple people inside the vehicle
exited the vehicle and began opening
fire upon the patrons that were
outside of the club at the time
and again multiple people wounded.
We believe it was a 2 males that
were wounded and three women and
at this point that's what we have.
We have very preliminary information
but it looks like over 50 shots
were fired here which is a very
scary situation considering there's
like a mobile food truck and.
Again, the number of patrons that were
outside and again five people were shot.
So it's still very early
in our investigation.
We have both our crime scene
investigators as well as homicide
investigators and they'll be coming
through the location here trying
to locate potential witnesses.
Most have left the location already
as well as just trying to canvas
the area for any other witnesses
or cameras or anything that may be
available to them as part of their
standard follow up investigation.
We do ask that if anyone has any information.
About this incidents to please
give us a call at 713222 T IPS,
that's a Crime Stoppers and they could
always report the information anonymously.
We know there were a lot of people
out here and again we'd like to try
to determine what happened to try
to get some answers for the family.
Is that going to be a female or a male?
The deceased is is a male.
The information we have
again is 5 people wounded.
Of the five, two were males,
three were females.
One of the males is the one that
was pronounced at C the others,
we don't know their condition at this point.
Transported by ambulances or
private automobile or I don't know
how they were transported, but
I'm told I'm assuming based on information,
the preliminary information I received,
they all went by ambulance, but that's
something that we could try to confirm.
Any idea where they all adults?
Although that's the information we have.
They're all adults.
I know it's still early in
the investigation but do you
know does this appear to be
a targeted attack or random.
If if the information is correct
that that somebody exited from a
vehicle and began opening fire
then I mean that's probably
a good indicator that they were coming
with purpose and and and maybe it
was targeted somebody maybe there
was some type of beef before inside
the club that later spilled out but
at this point we don't know that.
You know it's just assuming but we'll
we'll definitely look into all angles
and that's why we like witnesses.
Looking forward so we could have a
better idea of what's what's occurring.
Is this the club, the lounge 3333?
It occurred in the parking lot.
And as you said, over 50 shots were fired.
So you have a relatively large crime scene.
Can you talk about the process,
what goes into, you know,
handling such a large scene like this? Yeah,
it's been a busy night.
Actually. Our our deputies out
here done a phenomenal job just
responding to a lot of calls.
But specific to this,
our crime scene investigators come,
they're coming the location
for any possible evidence.
Primarily it's going to be
farms evidence, but sometimes
there may be discarded items
on the parking lot that they
may discover other things.
So it'll be kind of a.
Thorough scene investigation
and so that's what will
happen. And then working in concert
with our homicide investigators as
well to see if there's if evidence
kind of gives any preliminary
information on where occurred.
Like I said, it looks like a lot of
those shots were fired primarily in a
concentrated area which is right in
front of the club by a mobile food truck.
Some vehicles were also struck.
So it seems to be pretty contained
by and large, but again this is a.
Pretty wild when you this is the kind
of stuff we're confronting on a pre
regular basis and the high number of shots,
you know again it's over 50 and also it
appears at least one AK47 was utilized.
So that's pretty,
pretty potent stuff that we're seeing
out here on the streets that are
our deputies and law enforcement
have to encounter every day.