HOUSTON – Authorities are investigating the deadly shootings of a man and woman they believe were connected to a “botched robbery.”
The investigation involved two different scenes.
In the first scene, officers with the Houston Police Department were called to a school parking lot in the 1400 block of Peppertree for reports of a shooting around 11:20 p.m. Monday. Upon arrival, they found a man dead in a pickup truck.
Police obtained surveillance video that shows the man arriving in the truck, and about 15 minutes later, a sedan pulls up. Video then shows the men in the sedan shooting into the truck.
Police said a woman was injured in the shooting. The men who were riding in the sedan placed the woman into their vehicle, then fled the scene. Her body, however, was located about five miles away in the 1500 block of Penn City Road around 11:40 p.m.
Harris County sheriff’s deputies said a text message from the woman’s friends led them to her location.
“So far, what we’ve been told is that several friends of this young woman received an anonymous text message giving the location of this woman and that she had been shot,” Sgt. Wolfford with the HCSO Homicide Division said. “Friends came to the location and found her not breathing.”
According to authorities, the woman, along with two other men, may have helped set up the man in the pickup truck.