KHOU – 2 killed, 9 hurt in drive-by shooting at northeast Houston block party, police say
Two people were killed and at least nine others hurt when gunfire rang out at a block party in northeast Houston early Saturday morning, police say.
This happened on Laura Koppe Road at Lockwood Drive.
The Houston Police Department said a large crowd had gathered for a block party when a white pickup truck drove by and started shooting.
HPD said the two men who were killed both were shot multiple times.Â
The family of one of the men killed identified him as 23-year-old Breon Stuard. Police said the other was a man in his early 20s.
At least nine others were hurt in the commotion, either by gunfire or while running away. They were taken to area hospitals. Police said the condition of the injured ranges from stable to critical. HPD Detective Kyle Heaverlo said some of them may not survive.
KHOU 11’s Katiera Winfrey spoke with one of the people injured in the shooting about how it went down.
“All good and dandy and then all of a sudden, just like you said, hell broke loose,” said one man who said he was shot in the foot. “I don’t have no words. I just feel bad for what happened out of nowhere.”
HPD said investigators found two different types of shell casings at the scene, indicating there may have been multiple shooters.
A woman who witnessed the shooting called it chaotic.
“I was thinking, ‘Just stay low and try to live,'” said Sanaa Hillary. “I had to crawl. I scratched up my knees, my shoe broke, and hid behind a car.”
She said she grew up with one of the men who was killed.
“It was just a senseless act of violence that could have been avoided,” Hillary said. “You got to think about everybody out here, you got to put your differences to the side. You got to think about the safety, and these are lives that people are taking away.”
The truck involved was last seen driving west on Laura Koppe toward I-59. Investigators said surveillance video in the area was low quality, making it hard to give a good description of the suspects. There’s no word on a motive.
“We don’t know if there’s a motive and what the motive may be,” Heaverlo said. “It’s important that the public realize, without their assistance, a lot of these don’t get solved.”
