Shooting on Bataan Road leaves 1 dead

(KPRC2)

HOUSTON – Police are searching for the gunman who left a man dead early Wednesday.

The victim was found just after 3:30 a.m. in the 5100 block of Bataan Road in a black vehicle parked on the side of the road with the car doors open, Houston police said. 

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A dark-colored sedan left the scene at a high rate of speed northbound on Martin Luther King Boulevard from the victim's location, police said.

The victim had not been identified as of Wednesday afternoon, officials with the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences said. 

Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the Houston Police Department Homicide Division at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.