Family of student killed in TSU shooting speaks out

HOUSTON – A man wanted in the fatal shooting of a Texas Southern University student was arrested Friday night after a SWAT team standoff in north Houston.

The shooting victim, Brent Randall, 18, was laid to rest Saturday.

Jartis LeBlanc Jr., 19, is in custody on murder charges. Officers said he shot Randall Oct. 9 in the parking lot of Texas Southern University's Courtyard Apartments. According to Houston police, LeBlanc was taken into custody around 11:30 p.m. Friday after barricading himself inside a home on Knox Street and Homer Street.

LeBlanc is accused of killing Randall, and wounding Randall's brother, Lawrence Flowers, in retaliation for a shooting after a basketball game the night before.

"He was perfect," Randall's sister Tishanna Mouton said. "Never got in any trouble. He was a good boy. He went to school. He did what he had to do."

"It made me feel like, my brother, he got that done. He knew we wouldn't have been able to be right, seeing him like that, and this guy on the street," Randall's sister Jocelyn Mouton said.

Officers talked to LeBlanc over loud speakers and he surrendered peacefully after about an hour.

But Randall's sisters said that won't bring their brother back.

"I don't know how I am going to take a step," Jocelyn Mouton said. "I don't know what to do. I don't know what to say. I can't believe it. He was only 18. He was my baby brother."