A Mother's Day celebration in east Houston took a tragic turn this past Sunday when an 18-year-old woman allegedly shot her mother. The Houston Police Department responded to a distress call around 3:30 p.m. at a home on Weaver Road, where they discovered a 35-year-old woman suffering from a gunshot wound to her right leg. The National Desk reports that the injured party, later identified as the shooter's mother, was promptly transported to a local hospital with injuries not considered to be life-threatening.
According to the Houston Police Department, Trinity Calhoun arrived at the residence to pick up her child, leading into a heated dispute that subsequently went south, featuring a firearm pulled and used by the daughter against her own flesh and blood. FOX 26 Houston states that the young mother then fled the scene, only to be apprehended by law enforcement a few miles away.
The Harris County District Attorney's Office has charged Calhoun with aggravated assault of a family member, following consultation. Now behind bars, she is awaiting proceedings at the Harris County Jail. As the investigation continues, officials have yet to release a full narrative of the events.
Details are still emerging in this incident which shattered the tranquility typically associated with Mother's Day. The Houston Police Department, after discovering the daughter not long after she left her wounded mother, arrested Trinity Calhoun a few miles from the home, has been tight-lipped regarding the specifics of the family dispute that escalated to violence.
