Police say two men sustained injuries when a fight in a Sears parking lot and escalated into a stabbing-shooting yesterday outside a north Houston mall.
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Amidst the Black Friday shoppers at the Willowbrook Mall, authorities said no other injuries occurred when the altercation went south around 12:30 p.m.
“The first male stabs the second male,” HPD spokeswoman Jodi Silva said in an interview with the Houston Chronicle.
Investigators believe the stabbed man retaliated by firing a gun at his attacker, Silva said further.
HPD says the call came in at 12:30pm of shooting at #WillowbrookMall parking lot @houstonpolice say 2 men were arguing then shot & stabbed one another. HPD doesn’t know what they were arguing abt or if they know each other.They were taken to hospital, no one else was hurt @KPRC2 pic.twitter.com/JGpsy7nQuD
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“One witness said that she saw two Hispanic males get into a confrontation, she heard a gunshot, and, at that time ,she hid behind a tree to protect herself,” Sgt. Richard Rodriguez, a detective with Houston Police Homicide division, said in an interview with Click2Houston.com.
The stabbed man reportedly received transport to Memorial Hermann Hospital in stable condition, according to the Chronicle.
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The man with the gunshot wound went to Ben Taub Hospital, and, as of the overnight hours of Friday, Silva said his status is unknown.