Two young children seriously injured after fireworks ignited when suspect fired gunshots into their vehicle,
ShareA family of four, including two young children, has been seriously injured after a man shot at their vehicle during a road rage incident, causing the fireworks they had recently purchased to ignite.
Police said that two men got into an argument near a Fiesta store on West Mount Houston Road. The pair then drove to a nearby gas station in their separate vehicles before getting out and continuing the dispute. The suspect then fired his gun at the family's car. Police believe the gunshot ignited the fireworks the family was carrying inside the vehicle."The father drove off briefly, but their car engulfed in flames forcing him to stop," Gonzalez said in."Some good Samaritans came to the rescue and transported the family to a community ER clinic."
"The two children were [taken via Life Flight] to UTMB Galveston with severe burns," said Harris County Sheriff's Office Violent Crimes Detective Tom Turner, reportedThe suspect, described as either mixed race or Hispanic in his 20s, was driving a light-colored Ford Expedition with a woman and two children inside.
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