Houston shooting: Woman shot in face in driveway of house on Thrush
HOUSTON - A woman is shot in the face in a driveway in southeast Houston near Mykawa Road and Bellfort Avenue. Two women had just returned to a house in the 6300 block of Thrush Drive and as soon as they turned into the driveway, the women realized they had been followed.
That's when a gunman shot right through the driver's window, shooting a young woman in her face.
At point-blank range, a single shot was fired through the glass and into the face of the woman who was behind the wheel of a pick-up truck.
"I heard one shot. I thought it was fireworks. I did hear one shot," says one neighbor.
Houston police investigators say the two women had just returned from a nearby store around 11:15 p.m. on Monday night and didn't realize until it was too late, that someone was following them.
Houston police investigate a shooting on Thrush.
"They did not see until they pulled into their driveway that a vehicle had followed them from an unknown point but as soon as they pulled up, one or two males got out of the vehicle and fired one shot into the vehicle," Houston Police Department Lt. J.P. Horelica.
The woman, who's in her 20s, was rushed to the hospital in stable condition with a gunshot wound to her face, leaving neighbors terrified.
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"Absolutely yes, for sure. It's scary. I don't know what to think of it," explains one neighbor and another adds, "It's real disturbing because it's pretty quiet in this neighborhood. There's a lot of elderly people here and everything, and we normally don't hear stuff like that, and I'm really surprised."
Detectives say neither road rage nor robbery appears to be the motive.
There were no altercations before the shooting according to investigators, and without trying to take anything, the gunman jumped back into the car and drove off in a dark-colored vehicle. Authorities say it doesn’t appear that the suspect or suspects tried to get into the woman’s pickup truck.