Brothers trying to protect female neighbor fatally shot by suspect, sheriff says
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas - Two brothers and a suspect are dead after an apparent double murder-suicide in northeast Harris County on Friday night.
Authorities have identified the brothers as 50-year-old Edward Lopez-Robles and 31-year-old Luis Lopez-Robles. The suspect was approximately in his 30s and has been identified as Carlos Guerra.
It started with a woman and her boyfriend having an argument inside a home on S. Spicewood, near Green River Drive, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office.
The woman ran to a neighbor's house and told the people inside that she had been assaulted by her boyfriend.
Two brothers left the home and went to confront the man.
Investigators say the man immediately opened fire, killing both brothers.
A third brother came outside with a pistol and exchanged gunfire with the shooter.
The suspect then ran inside his home where he shot himself, according to law enforcement.
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FOX 26's Jonathan Mejia spoke with neighbors about the incident, and they said they are shocked to see something like this happening there despite always hearing gunshots.
"I’m in shock because I never saw something like that before," Julio Franco said.
"I parked, and I heard them, and I was like, okay I need to rush and go inside my house, and then I was cooking for my kids, and I was gonna come outside to throw something outside, and I heard them again, and I was talking to my friends, and they said ‘no just stay inside’ they were super close," Dulce Torres said.
Alberto Hernandez told FOX 26 that he knew the brothers as they were his next-door neighbors and ever since witnessing the scene he's had a hard time.
"I saw the bodies lying on the ground. I haven’t been able to sleep. It was 3 in the morning and their bodies were still lying on the ground," Hernandez said.
Residents in the neighborhood told FOX 26 that all individuals involved in the incident are from Guatemala.
The woman and her two teenage sons survived, as well as the third brother and are all cooperating in the ongoing investigation.