Two found dead in Midtown intersection, police say

Houston police are searching for several people accused of killing two people in Midtown.

HPD received a call after 11 p.m. Sunday. When they arrived at the scene, they found the two victims lying in the middle of Dennis and Fannin streets.

Family members identify the victims as 35-year-old Robert Isaac and Willie Sims, who is also in his 30's.
We're told Isaac lived as a woman, and went by the name "Shontae."

Family members told Channel 2 that Isaac and Sims had been having some sort of trouble with another group of people for several months.

A family friend who had come to pick up Isaac found both victims lying in the road bleeding.  Witnesses told him they were attacked by a group of people.

Isaac was hit in the head with a crowbar, and Sims was shot and killed after trying to help get the attackers away from Isaac.

"She was still breathing when they got in the ambulance, after they got through working on her, she didn't make it," said Isaac's friend, Kevin Braxton.

Isaac's cousin says the people attacked the victims because they were jealous.

"It was some other homosexuals hating and jealous because she didn't bother nobody.  He did his thing, they were jealous, it was an ongoing altercation. Something happened three weeks ago [and] I thought they squashed it, I'm thinking it was over," Calvin Jones said.

Isaac's mother said she was on the phone with her son when the attack occurred.

"Before they got off the phone they said 'There they go, there they go right there.' And I was trying to make him get back on the phone. Next thing I knew someone was knocking on my door telling me I had to come downtown, saying that was it, he was dead," Leola Thompson said.

The suspects remain on the loose. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.

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