Houston authorities say they haven’t received any reports of gunfire to corroborate claims by the “Cajun Navy” that looters shot at the volunteer rescuers, Fox News reports.
The self-proclaimed Cajun Navy is a group of volunteer rescue workers using boats to help stranded Texans escape the flood waters brought by Hurricane Harvey. The group claimed that looters fired guns at volunteers and into the sky around people in the boats.
Police, however, have not received any reports of gunshots, according to Fox.
Cajun Navy members claimed they were attacked by looters posing as flood victims. The looters wanted to steal the volunteers’ boats, or at least scare them out of the area, a now-deleted Facebook post originally stated.
A presumed volunteer posted a video recounting the event, emphasizing that nobody was shot.
“We’ve made it real clear to our community we’re going to do whatever it takes to protect their homes and their businesses,” Houston police chief Art Acevedo said, according to ABC News. “And when people come from the outside to Houston, Texas, know we’re going to be out in the city, we’re not going to rest as a police department or law enforcement community until people restore their lives.”
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