HOUSTON — Surveillance video showed the chaos that erupted following a shooting outside of an event hall in southwest Houston Saturday night. Houston police are still looking for whoever is responsible.
New surveillance video from another business across the street captured the chaos as hundreds of teens went running in all directions trying to get to safety following the shooting.
Houston police said Monday morning they are still looking for the shooter or shooters involved and a motive for the incident.
The shooting happened in the parking lot of Vanity Spaces event venue on S. Post Oak, police said.
What happened
Houston police said three people are expected to be OK after being injured that night. It happened just before 11:30 p.m. outside of an event hall on S. Post Oak Rd. near W. Orem Dr.
Police said they received a call about an incident outside the venue. When they arrived, they discovered more than 300 people were at the event hall when the shooting happened.
Investigators found three people who were shot and took them to a hospital. Police said the three people are teens and all suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
One is 17-year-old and the other two are 15-year-olds, police said.
According to HPD Sgt. Rossow, the venue was already closed when the shooting happened.
"When we arrived on scene, the venue had already shut down," Rossow said. "They were just kind of loitering around outside...it was a chaotic scene and we were very outnumbered when we got here."
The owner of Vanity's said earlier in the night prior to the shooting they hosted a birthday party for a 17-year-old boy. The parents of the teen asked for the party to be shut down early after they were upset that too many uninvited guests started showing up.
The owner said she believed someone posted the details of the party on social media.
The owner said security was forced to turn people away and made sure the teens who were already inside the venue had been picked up by parents and chaperones before locking up the facility for the evening.
She was shocked to learn that a few hours later the shooting happened outside of her business.
Meanwhile, the owner of Taylor's across the street said his security called the police earlier in the night concerned about the large crowd which might cause problems for their business and patrons. They saw droves of teenagers being dropped off from party buses and fights breaking out in the parking lot across the street.
So far, police said they have no witnesses or suspects. HPD's Major Assaults Unit will take over the shooting investigation.