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Woman wounded in Pasadena shooting
A 28-year-old woman was shot in the head early Wednesday during a drive-by shooting at a home in Pasadena, according to police.
She was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital, where she remained in critical condition, police said.
The shooting was reported around 2 a.m. in the 1400 block of Cactus Street. Police said the victim was inside with a man and a child when gunmen fired multiple rounds into the home.
2-year-old reported missing near Del Rio
DEL RIO — U.S. Border Patrol agents are searching for a missing 2-year-old girl in the Rio Grande near the Texas town of Del Rio.
Agents continued Wednesday to search the river that forms the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas.
A news release says agents from Del Rio detained a woman from Haiti shortly after she crossed the river. The woman told agents she had lost her daughter while crossing.
Friendswood hiker dies at Big Bend
A 54-year-old man from Friendswood died Tuesday while hiking amid sweltering heat in Big Bend National Park, according to officials.
The body of Richard Merrill was found a quarter-mile from the Marufo Vega Trail he had been hiking on. Authorities found his car parked at the trailhead, as well as a note that detailed his plans to hike from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., according to a National Park Services news release.
Searchers waited for safer temperatures before setting off to find him. He was found that evening with two liters of water and a full bottle of Gatorade, said Jennette Jurado, a park ranger.
Temperatures in the nearby Rio Grande Village were 90 degrees with 38 percent humidity by 10 a.m. on the day of Merrill’s hike. The humidity dropped and the temperature skyrocketed to 106 degrees by late afternoon.
“Under these conditions, a hiker will lose more moisture to sweat and evaporation than can be replenished by drinking and can quickly become dehydrated and experience heat illness,” officials said.
Man shot in middle of road rage incident
A man leaving a Whole Foods Market near the Montrose area grocery Tuesday night was apparently caught in the middle of a road rage shooting and wounded in the shoulder, authorities said.
Around 9:15 p.m., a husband and wife just pulled out of Whole Foods Market the grocery in the 600 block of Waugh at D’Amico when they reportedly saw two cars driving erratically, according to police.
The couple was waiting at a stop light, and reported that they heard several pops that sounded like gunfire. Then the husband told the wife, “I think I’ve been shot,” police said.
A bullet hole could be seen through the front windshield of their white Prius.