Crime & Safety
Shootout Near Kashmere High School Injures Teen
A teen who authorities say was not a student was shot in a gunfight at a park across from the Houston high school and taken to a hospital.
HOUSTON, TX — A teen was shot in a gunfight at a park across from Kashmere High School at around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in northeast Houston.
Both the victim and suspect are 16 or 17 years old, and the suspect is a former student at Kashmere, Houston Police Assistant Chief Patricia Cantu said.
The victim, who is not a student, suffered five gunshot wounds — three to the abdomen and one each to the arm and thigh — and was taken to Texas Children's Hospital, Houston police said. He is in critical but stable condition and undergoing surgery, authorities said. The suspect, who is a student at Kashmere, fled the scene in a red sedan.
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Four of the victim's friends took him across the street to Kashmere and identified the suspect to authorities.
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The victim and the suspect knew each other and had an apparent rivalry, Cantu said.
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