HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A violent dispute between two brothers in Houston’s Hiram Clarke neighborhood left one brother critically injured and the other on the run.
Investigators said one of the brothers, identified by his mother as Leontay Wade, was desperately looking for help when a neighbor, thinking he was an intruder, shot him.
Ring doorbell video obtained by Eyewitness News shows Wade urgently knocking on a neighbor’s door, begging for help and asking someone to call 911. Moments before, his brother Kenneth Jolivet, who appears in the footage, had attacked him.
After the homeowner refused to open the door, police said Wade ran down the street and tried to get into another house. A second neighbor, thinking Wade was trying to break in, shot him. Wade was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
The brothers’ mother told ABC13 that the violence came after a long feud between them, partly because they owned competing smoke shops.
Their mother, Shirley Jolivet, said things got worse the day before. She said Kenneth Jolivet came to her house around 4 p.m., tied her up, assaulted her, and held her hostage for hours to try to lure his brother and father there.
“They both have smoke shops,” Shirley said through tears. “He tied me up and held me hostage for six hours. He beat me, left bruises, and whipped me with extension cords.”
Shirley said that when Wade finally showed up, the brothers started fighting in the street, and things quickly got out of hand.
Ring doorbell videos show a bloodied Wade banging on doors and begging neighbors to call 911. Family members said the man in Adidas clothes in the background is Kenneth Jolivet.
After Wade was shot by a neighbor, Kenneth Jolivet ran from the scene and is still missing. Police said they are actively looking for him.
The neighbor who fired the gun has not been charged so far. Investigators said the case will probably go to a grand jury to decide if the shooting was justified.
Family members call the situation a tragic escalation of a personal dispute with devastating consequences.
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