HOUSTON – Investigators in east Houston are piecing together what caused a road rage shooting Thursday night between two men that may turn deadly.
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The shootout happened around 11 p.m. and Lt. Willkens with the Houston Police Department said one of the shooters was rushed to the hospital for surgery, but doctors did not believe he would make it.
Again, police are trying to figure out how everything unfolded, but according to Lt. Willkens, a family in one of the cars involved is cooperating with officials. From the preliminary details Lt. Willkens shared it may have started somewhere between Normandy and Uvalde on the I-10 Freeway going eastbound.
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The incident involved two people in a truck and a family of three in a black sedan. Inside the truck, was a man and woman who were both taken to the hospital but Lt. Willkens said it is most likely the man may not make it. The woman, who told police she and the man recently started dating, is going to survive. She “was covered in blood,” Lt. Willkens said, and distraught.
A 26-year-old man was driving the black sedan, with his mother in the backseat. Lt. Willkens said she is actually a probation officer with Harris County and her husband was in the front seat. The family was on their way to get tacos, he explained, when the shooting occurred.
Responding officers found both vehicles riddled with bullets, a woman in the backseat of the sedan, (probation officer with Harris County) - her husband and elderly father were in the car as well as her son, who was in the driver’s seat. They told police they were going to get tacos when a truck pulled up behind them and then went around them and the truck driver started shooting at them. The 26-year-old driver, Lt. Willkens said, started firing back at the truck and one of those bullets hit the driver, sending him to the hospital.
Both parties called police and again, are cooperating with investigators. Homicide investigators were called to the scene, as well as the District Attorney’s Office, to look into it but Lt. WIllkens also urged the public to come forward if they had any information by calling police or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.