Six people were shot during an altercation at a large gathering in northeast Houston, according to officials. Two of the victims are in critical condition.<\/p>\n
The shooting occurred around 8 p.m. Saturday in the 11300 block of Homestead Road, in the parking lot of Big City Foods, a grocery store in a mostly residential area of northeast Houston, Texas, according to a spokesperson for the Houston Police Department. <\/p>\n
Officers were in the area helping disperse a large crowd gathered for a trail ride when an altercation broke out and multiple people began shooting at each other.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know at this time why the shooting occurred, but we do know that so far we have six victims that were shot and transported,\u201d the spokesperson said during a briefing.<\/p>\n
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Officers immediately rendered aid to three of the victims before the Houston Fire Department transported them to area hospitals, police said. The other three victims transported themselves to hospitals.<\/p>\n
Police said two victims are in critical condition: an adult male believed to be about 20 years old and a juvenile believed to be about 15 years old. Four others are listed in stable condition: a 16-year-old juvenile, a 20-year-old woman, a 20-year-old man, and a 22-year-old woman.<\/p>\n
No information was released on suspects or arrests. Police asked anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers or the Houston Police Department\u2019s Major Assaults Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six people were shot during an altercation at a large gathering in northeast Houston, according to officials. Two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1492,56,58,57,10051,95,27,464],"class_list":["post-146272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-featured","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-texas","tag-shooting","tag-texas","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}