Deputies Arrest Snapchat Shooter On Robbery Charges

HOUSTON, TX — Harris County Sheriff’s Office Robbery investigators and the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders and Fugitive Task Force members assested 20-year-old Mason Gray on Jan. 9, at around 6:45 p.m.

Investigators received information he was at a home in west Harris County, and he was taken into custody with incident.

Gray went before the magistrate late Tuesday and his was set at $60,000 each for both armed robberies.

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Gray was featured in a extensive media campaign over the last month in order to get tips or information on his location.

The Harris County Sheriff's Office YouTube page highlighted Gray in a Snapchat video that showed him shooting a handgun from a moving vehicle.

Investigators received information from the video to identify Gray as the suspect who two robbed a Valero station's at gunpoint on March 1, 2017, in west Harris County.

At around 12:45 a.m. Gray walked in to the store located in the 2200 block of Fry Road, and looks around the cooler area at energy drinks.

He was seen wearing a light colored shirt and grey colored pants with a tan or light colored baseball hat with POLO on the tab.

Gray left the store, and came back in a short time later and had changed his clothing.

As he approached the counter, he pulls a tan and brown colored mask over the bottom part of his face and demands the money at gunpoint.

He then fled from the store on foot in an unknown direction.

Gray also robbed a Valero Corner station at gunpoint located in the 22500 block of Franz road that same night.

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