Three women were wounded in a shooting Tuesday night in the Sunnyside area of Houston, in an attack that unfolded along Scott Street and left investigators searching for whoever opened fire. The gunfire struck at more than one point at the scene, leaving multiple victims behind.
According to investigators, two of the women were shot in the parking lot of a convenience store just before 11 o'clock at night. The parking lot was the first focus of the investigation, as detectives worked to piece together how the shooting began and who was involved.
A third woman was shot inside her car, according to police. That brought the number of victims to three and indicated the violence was not confined to a single spot, complicating the picture for investigators trying to reconstruct exactly what happened.
Despite the seriousness of a shooting that left three people hit by gunfire, all three women are expected to survive. Their expected recovery was one piece of relatively positive news in an otherwise alarming late-night incident in the neighborhood.
As of the latest check, no one was in custody in connection with the shooting. That left the case open, with detectives still working to identify a suspect and to establish a motive for the attack that wounded the three women.
Investigators are asking anyone with information about the shooting to reach out and share what they know. Tips from the public are often critical in cases like this, where no arrest has yet been made and the circumstances that led to the gunfire remain under investigation.