Houston Shooting: Domestic Dispute in Suburb Leaves 6 Dead, Including 4 Children
Four children and two adults are dead, following a domestic dispute gone awry. Police seized the suspect following a chase and long standoff.
The shooting happened in the Houston, Texas suburb of Spring. According to Reuters, police responded to the scene on Wednesday afternoon and discovered five people dead and two severely wounded. One of those wounded was a 15-year-old girl who provided the police with more information.
She told the officers that the shooter was a relative and where she believed him to have gone. Reuters reports the victims were "two boys, ages 4 and 14, two girls, ages 7 and 9, and a man and woman, ages 39 and 33," according to a police spokesperson.
One of the children was alive when the police arrived on the scene and he was transported to a hospital with the 15-year-old girl, but he died there, according to the AP. The girl identified the shooter as her "ex-uncle," according to NBC News.
"It appears this stems from a domestic issue with a breakup in the family from what our witness has told us," Assistant Chief Deputy Constable Mark Herman of the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable's Office said to reporters; however, the police did not initially release the identity of the victims or the suspect, reports the AP.
The teenage girl called 911 at about 6 p.m., following the shooting and informed the police that the shooter was heading towards her grandparents house to supposedly shoot them too, according to the AP. Police gave chase and followed the car for 30 minutes. ABC News provided raw footage of the chase, in which police attempted to halt the car by throwing spike strips on its way.
The suspect led the police to a cul-de-sac on Countrymeadows Drive near Country Canyon Road, according to KHOU.com, some four miles from the scene of the shooting. The police and suspect were in a standoff for more than three hours, but the police managed to convince the man to surrender himself.
"The sheriff's hostage negotiators have successfully resolved this," said Constable Ron Hickman. "He's removed from the vehicle without incident."
However, the police have now identified the shooter as Ronald Lee Haskell, 33, and he has been charged with capital murder, according to ABC News Chicago.
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