HOUSTON, Texas – A Houston man is accused of using a machete to attack his own family members early Wednesday morning.
Neighbors who live in the Vista at Westchase apartments say a man, who hasn’t been identified by police, attacked both his mother and sister just before 10 a.m.
The Houston Police Department tells KPRC 2 that officers, including the SWAT team, responded to the apartment building around 9:40 a.m. after getting reports of two women stabbed and slashed by a man. That same man then barricaded himself inside an apartment.
People that live nearby say one of the victims told them the suspect was her brother. She also said he stabbed their mother as well.
“I kept hearing, help me, help me screaming, help me, help me,” said Kiara Bailey, who walked outside of her apartment to find the teen laying on the ground bleeding. “So, I immediately ran back in the house and called ambulance. They was telling me to apply pressure, but it was too many stab wounds to even apply pressure.”
The mother was also laying on the ground, in the grass across the courtyard from Bailey’s apartment.
According to neighbors, the man was armed with a machete along with another long knife.
“It was the hand knife that you stick your hand into,” explained Jamia Hardy. “And you can, like, stab stuff with. He used one of those.”
The sister, who neighbor’s estimate to be in her late teens or early 20s, made it to a neighbor’s door to ask for help. You can follow her barefoot bloody footprints to the downstairs door where her handprint is left in blood.
“They had serious injuries. Lacerations to the deep laceration to the forearm,” said another neighbor, Eric Taylor.
“She kept saying her brother did it. Her brother did it. He’s in the house. He went in the house,” Bailey added.
The man barricaded himself inside the apartment where neighbor’s say the family lives.
Houston police, the SWAT team and the Houston Bomb Squad all responded.
Some officers took refuge and vantage points inside the living rooms of some residents.
“They were in on our living room, but I can see why they used our living room because it’s a direct shot to the apartment, just in case he was to come out and backfire towards them,” Hardy said.
Neighbors say after about an hour standoff, the man surrendered to police. Cell phone video shows the moment officers dawning tactical gear and long rifles arrested the man.
“I seen he just bloody, bloody, just bloody. And he came out like nothing never happened,” said Pamela Cunningham.
The two women were rushed to the hospital, each with multiple stab and slash wounds.
Houston Police say they arrested the man and he will be charged with aggravated assault. Investigators have not yet released a motive.