‘Somebody’s kid didn’t make it home’ | Nearby businesses react to deadly shooting near Pearland

HOUSTON — A number of younger folks have been nonetheless on the scene after a number of companies responded to a capturing at a enterprise complicated within the 2900 block of S. Sam Houston Parkway East.

1 teen shot and killed, 3 teenagers injured in capturing outdoors birthday celebration, deputies say

“They discovered a complete of 4 people who’d been shot,” Harris County Sheriff’s Workplace Sgt. Jason Brown mentioned. “Three 17-year-olds and one 14-year-old.”

Investigators mentioned the youngest sufferer is a lady and the others are boys. One of many 17-year-old boys died earlier than reaching the hospital.

“Our solely info is that there was a big altercation within the car parking zone between, you already know, 75 to 100 individuals who have been on the market,” Brown mentioned. “And we had a number of people who fired weapons within the car parking zone.”

We’re instructed the kids have been there for a 16-year-old woman’s birthday celebration at Dreamlite Productions Studio, which can be an occasion venue. The struggle occurred after a bunch of teenagers was reportedly instructed to depart.

“It’s unhappy, you already know, that any person’s child didn’t make it house,” a close-by enterprise proprietor who did not need to be recognized mentioned. “We’ve bought lots of people which have lots of completely different sorts of individuals come over. However, usually, nothing like this.”

A lot of the companies within the complicated, together with a childcare middle, are closed on the weekend. A few companies that did open Sunday morning weren’t allowed to have workers enter the lot till the crime scene tape got here down.

Anybody with info on the capturing ought to name Crime-Stoppers 713-222-TIPS (8477).

Here is the replace that was offered on the scene of the capturing shortly after it occurred: