A tragic scene unfolded in Houston's Greater Third Ward last night, directly across from the Texas Southern University campus, where police discovered a man dead and a woman critically injured inside a residence on the 4200 block of Ennis Street. The Houston Police Department described the ordeal as an attempted murder-suicide following a domestic dispute. In a matter-of-fact reveal, a 4-year-old girl emerged as the bear witness to this horror, alerting officers that her mother "fell" and needed help. The child's words served as the harrowing pointer to an act that left one man dead by his own hand and a woman fighting for her life.
The gruesome discovery was made after Houston Police Department's South Central Patrol officers responded to an 8:55 p.m. call yesterday. Upon arrival, they encountered a traumatizing spectacle: a dead man with a self-inflicted gunshot wound and the female victim critically injured. According to ABC13, the woman was urgently transported to an area hospital. In a distressing twist, it was reported that the small child, likely unaware of the magnitude of the situation, was the one who sought help.
Subsequent investigation by law enforcement officials suggests that the man shot the woman before turning the gun on himself. Family members were promptly reached and arrived to take care of the girl, who has now become an inadvertent survivor of what should have been a safe haven for her. As Houston Police shared on X, formerly known as Twitter, they reassured an anxious public that the shooting appeared to be an isolated domestic incident, averting any potential threats to the community at large.
South Central officers are at a shooting scene 4200 Ennis. Adult male deceased at the scene, adult female transported in critical condition. 202 pic.twitter.com/tyYB6zOUij
— Houston Police (@houstonpolice) March 26, 2024
