Man involved in bar parking lot flight in southwest Houston dies in the hospital
Houston police officers broke up a fight early Sunday in southwest Houston, discovering a man who had been shot in the leg and later died.Police broke up a fight in a bar parking lot early Sunday in southwest Houston, and found one of the men involved with a gunshot wound to the leg. That man later died after being hospitalized, according to Houston Police Department officers.
Officers saw the man being pinned down by two other people around midnight in the parking lot in front of the Tropicana bar in the 6000 block of Bissonnet Street, Houston police told Metro Video Services reporters. The two men fled, one in a car and the other on foot. Officers took off after them and detained both, police said.Officers discovered that the man who had been pinned down had a gunshot wound to the leg. They put a tourniquet on him and he was taken to the hospital, where he died.
The cause of the fight — and whether one of the men who was detained is suspected of shooting the man in the leg — was still unknown early Sunday.
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