A 17-year-old girl was killed and three other youths were injured after two groups exchanged fire in southwest Houston early Sunday, police said.
The shooting followed an altercation outside a business, Houston Police Department Deputy Chief Wyatt Martin said at a news conference Sunday. At some point, he said, two groups of people started “shooting each other.”
Police believe there were at least two shooters among the groups, Martin said.
A 17-year-old girl who was “about to turn 18” was killed, he said.
Three others were taken to local hospitals, with an 18-year-old girl being transported by the Houston Fire Department and the other two victims, men ages 18 and 20, were taken away in private vehicles. All three suffered non-life-threatening injuries, Martin said.
The motive for the shooting was not immediately clear. Police said no weapons were recovered in the incident.
“It was a very chaotic scene,” Martin said as he urged anyone with information about the incident to come forward.
