Drive-by shooting at house leaves 2 dead

Two people died in a drive-by shooting in northwest Houston on Saturday morning.

According to police, the shooting took place around 1:30 a.m. on Oak Shadows near Balbo.

LaTonya Bailey, an investigator with the Houston Police Department, said a car pulled up next to a home and shot two people on the front porch — just a short time after one of them had returned home from a nightclub.

Bailey said police believe two people got out of the car and fired at least 25 shots from three weapons — a shotgun and two handguns, she said. The two people killed, whom police have not identified, lived in the same neighborhood. Two children, ages 2 and 7, were in the house when the shooting took place but were not injured. objects outside his west Houston apartment complex on the 15000 block of Park Row.

“When the officers got out there, he was inside his apartment and refused to come out,” Silva said. Police called for a SWAT team after hearing a gunshot inside the apartment.

The man’s mother and brother were also inside the apartment, but were not being held there against their will, Silva said.

After the 30-year-old man refused to come out, police obtained a warrant to enter the house, but by that point he had contacted a lawyer, Silva said.

“We contacted his lawyer and at that point he came out without incident,” Silva said. It was not yet clear what he would be charged with, she said.

Travis County sheriff’s spokesman Roger Wade says deputies began tailing a vehicle Saturday afternoon on Farm Road 620 in Lakeway, a suburb in Austin’s western hills. That prompted the suspect driver to attempt to flee, driving erratically on the hilly, winding road.

Finally, the suspect car drove through an intersection and crossed the center stripe of the road and slammed head-on into an oncoming car.

Paramedics said a man in his 20s and a woman in her 40s were killed outright, while another man in his 30s was airlifted to University Medical Center Brackenridge with lifethreatening injuries. Wade says the dead man was the suspect. tree

According to an accident report, Akor Daniel, 36, overcorrected his 2005 Toyota Camry on FM 247 early on Wednesday morning about 15 miles north of Huntsville. Daniel, according to the report, drove around a Texas Department of Transportation barrier placed on the road due to high water from recent rains.

Diamond Tarpeh, 34, was killed instantly in the accident.