HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – Deputies are looking for the suspects involved in the shooting and killing of a 17-year-old on Thursday night.
Authorities say the shooting happened at an apartment complex in the Cloverleaf area on Uvalde Road near Woodforest Boulevard in east Harris County just before 5 p.m.
Deputies tell KPRC 2 News reporter Jaewon Jung that the 17-year-old was hanging out with a group of teenagers when a suspect armed with a pistol and wearing a mask and hoodie shot the teen during an attempted robbery.
The suspect and the other teens reportedly ran from the scene.
Deputies said the suspect was seen leaving in a possible dark-colored sedan after the shooting. It’s not clear if the teen or the group he was with knew the shooter.
“We’re gonna be canvassing the area. We’re going to be looking for surveillance video. We’ve got to be talking to witnesses. We gonna be canvassing in the apartments here to see if anybody might have seen something or heard something,” said Sgt. Sidney Miller with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Harris County Sheriff’s Office or Crime Stoppers.