HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – Two people were shot Wednesday after a CraigsList cellphone sale turned into a deadly robbery, deputies said.
Harris County officials said two buyers met with two sellers to buy a cellphone around 9:30 p.m. along Highway 6 near Clay Road. They were talking inside a vehicle, when two people were shot, investigators said.
One person was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Police said they believe the two people who were shot were committing the robbery, and the people being robbed were defending themselves.
The shooting is under investigaiton.
