By Courtney Carpenter, ABC13 Houston.
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Investigators with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office are working to figure out if a mom acted in self-defense when they say she shot a man hours after a fight between teenagers.
HCSO said it was called to an apartment complex on Kuykendahl near FM 1960 around 8:30 p.m. on Monday after getting reports of a shooting.
When they got there, deputies said they learned that a couple of hours earlier, around 6:30 p.m., there was a fight between teenagers that a mom eventually broke up.
Investigators said a different mom went back to the scene to clarify what happened, and that’s when the shooting happened.
“During that incident, an unknown adult individual in his early 20s arrived on scene, causing a disturbance. The juvenile’s mother, who was present, fearing for her son’s safety, withdrew a firearm and shot several times in the direction of this individual, striking him once,” HCSO Sgt. Freder Munoz explained.
The man was taken to the hospital and is considered to be OK, according to deputies.
The sheriff’s office said it is possible the man was on drugs.
It is unclear if he had anything to do with the initial fight or not.
Several people were detained at the scene, HCSO said.
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