Police in Texas are investigating a weekend shooting that left one person dead and four others injured.
Officials said on Sunday, just after 2 a.m, a vehicle carrying multiple persons pulled up to the Touch Lounge near Houston. At some point people allegedly exited the vehicle and opened fire upon patrons who were congregated outside using at least one AK-47, according to ABC 13.
More than 50 shots were fired and at least one AK47 was used during the deadly Houston shooting that investigators believe was a targeted shooting.
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“If the information is correct, that somebody exited from a vehicle and began opening fire, then that’s probably a good indicator that they were coming with purpose and maybe it was targeted at somebody. Maybe there was some type of beef before inside the club that spilled out. At this point we don’t know that,” Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez told the outlet.
“It looks like over 50 shots were fired here, which is a very scary situation considering there’s a mobile food truck here and the number of patrons outside,” Gonzalez added, according to KHOU 11. (RELATED: One Killed, Nine Injured In Alabama NYE Shooting)
When authorities arrived on the scene they found five people (two men and three women) suffering from gunshot wounds, one of which died after being transported to the hospital. All victims are believed to be in their 20s, ABC 13 reported.
One of the victims, 20-year-old Amariah Pridgen, is in the National Guard and is currently a student at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge. Her father, Clarence Pridgen, told the outlet he was awoken Sunday morning with a phone call about the shooting.
“Me and my wife just woke up panicking. We live in Louisiana, so it was a four-hour ride. We just jumped in the car and drove down here,” he said, before adding that his daughter was undergoing surgery.
“Just to see and know that’s my baby’s blood on the ground. It’s so much blood. You don’t know (which) is hers. Blood is all over the side of this truck. I’m ex-military, and this is just like a war zone,” Pridgen said.