Houston Police Department Holds Press Briefing After Shooting Leaves One Dead, 14 Injured

Houston Police Department hold a press briefing after a shooting at a house party early on Sunday morning left 14 people injured and one person dead.

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00:00Division, this morning at 0050 hours, calls were dropping at the 6,000 block of Cherry Hill

00:09of multiple shootings, multiple injuries. Officers arrived at the scene three minutes

00:16right after the call. As they were arriving, they were still hearing gunshots and the scene

00:20was still very much active. Upon arrival, they started seeing people injured in various locations

00:26surrounding a residence. They started creating the plan. Officers started arriving again,

00:34created a plan to come to the Jack in the Box to start bringing various persons that were injured.

00:40HFD started arriving, started tending to the injured. Also, people were continuing to call

00:47shootings of shootings of shootings around the area. Once again, we had multiple injuries

00:56a total of 14. About three of them were transported here. Officers started working on them. HFD arrived.

01:05People started self-reporting to hospitals on their own, arriving with injuries. We have one

01:11that we know of that is deceased. We have multiple in critical condition, in surgery,

01:17and we have a few that are just, they're in stable conditions. I do want to add here that

01:25this whole incident started as a party, a family party, a family gathering. I believe some of the

01:32witnesses are saying they had an uninvited guest. The uninvited guest was asked to leave.

01:38He left. As he was leaving, he began shooting in the area. There was return fire from the residence as

01:46well. Once again, the person that did this was uninvited, was asked to leave, and he began the

01:55incident of the gunfire. Once again, we have multiple people detained for information. May or may not be the

02:03suspect. This scene is evolving. Once again, we have several scenes right now working the house,

02:12the jack of the box, and once again, we have people that self-transported that may have evidence in

02:17their vehicles. We would like them to contact the police department to make sure that if it wasn't one

02:23of the 14 that we have right now, to contact homicide, 713-308-3600, or to call our Crime Stoppers

02:31tips, 713-222, tips 5237. This scene is ongoing. It's still very complicated. It was chaotic from the

02:41get-go getting here. The officers did a great job in starting to conduct the scene and also have a scene

02:47to have HFD arrive to be safe and start working on the patients and begin the transporting. Once again,

02:54we ask those people if there's any witnesses that left the house, the residents, please call our

02:59homicide division. We are definitely going to need your help. We have people detained right now,

03:06and homicide will later start pushing out suspect information to get your help to get this person

03:11detained and arrested. Any questions?

03:17Do you know the ages of the victim?

03:19We do not know the ages of the victim at this time.

03:22Do you know the female injured?

03:25I do not know.

03:28Do you know what they were celebrating?

03:30I don't know what the celebration, it was a family barbecue. I do know they were having a barbecue.

03:37Any other questions?

03:39Thank you. Thank you so much.