HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A mother was shot and killed in front of her children after she pulled a gun on another driver in west Harris County, according to Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.<\/p>\n
Gonzalez said they responded to the scene on the 6700 block of Rusty Ridge Lane on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Gonzalez said deputies were originally called to the Highland Creek Ranch neighborhood for a reported generic “terroristic threat” call, and that a woman expressed she wanted to file a police report after she found a bullet on top of her car.<\/p>\n
As a deputy arrived, new calls for service were broadcast to law enforcement for a shooting at the same location he was responding to, according to Gonzalez.<\/p>\n
Investigators said the woman who made the original call to law enforcement was driving with her 8-year-old daughter, 4-year-old son, and dog when a man driving a work truck apparently pulled over to let the woman’s car through, but she then got out, became irate, and began yelling at him.<\/p>\n
The man told deputies that he tried to de-escalate the situation, but that she pulled out a pistol, according to investigators.<\/p>\n
Gonzalez said the man then got his gun as well and fired an unknown number of times at the woman, who collapsed and died at the scene.<\/p>\n
“Her kids were screaming, ‘Mommy’s dead, mommy’s dead, mommy’s dead,'” Islay Santoyo said after witnessing what happened.<\/p>\n
Santoyo told ABC13 they heard at least four shots.<\/p>\n
HCSO said the children and dog were unharmed.<\/p>\n
“It’s traumatizing obviously, for them. I can only imagine what they saw and their immediate reaction,” Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n
Gonzalez said the man who shot the woman stayed at the scene and cooperated with deputies as soon as the shooting happened.<\/p>\n
The active scene was located two blocks away from Duryea Elementary School. In a statement, Cy-Fair ISD officials said the school was placed under “secure mode” as a precautionary measure, adding that it was lifted 15 minutes later after district police determined there was no threat to the school.
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