Investigators believe someone drove by the apartment and fired several shots into the downstairs area. Several rifle shell casings were found in the parking lot.
Doctors are trying to save the life of a woman who was shot when bullets came flying into her apartment overnight.Investigators said one rifle round came through the wall of her apartment on Dashwood Drive near Renwick and Bellaire in southwest Houston just before 2 a.m. Wednesday.The woman in her mid-20s was shot in the shoulder, investigators said. Several rifle shell casings were found in the parking lot.
"Our complainant was in a makeshift bedroom-type area in the downstairs. One of the rounds went through the wall and hit her in the shoulder," Lt. R. Willkens said. "She is in bad shape. Like I said, it was rifle rounds."Police said there was one other person inside the apartment, but they were not hurt.For more on this story, follow Charly Edsitty on
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