the Event in Houston, Texas on Sunday morning, local time, has gradually aroused great attention in the united states. The suspected killer, who is still on the loose, hunted by the police.
while the family was black. If it is about a hate crime is unclear – the police has not stated anything about possible motives for the attack, which sheriff Ed Gonzalez described as ”oprovocerad and completely insane”.
Sheriff Ed Gonzalez. Photo: Nicole Hensley / the Houston Chronicle, the AP
– To the public we say that the next time it could be about your family, because this person is out there somewhere, ” says Ed Gonzalez, reports the news-tv-channel NBC News.
Sjuåringen to have died instantly when she was hit by the shot, sitting in the back seat of the family car. Her mother, who was driving, was also hit, but was able to leave the hospital after a shorter vårdinsats. It killed 13-year-old sister were injured by shattering glass.
a white man in the 40s. He was dressed in a red shirt and wore a beard.
Picture taken by a surveillance camera, according to the police, can show the car the perpetrator was traveling with. Photo: Harris County Sheriff’s Office / AP
A cartoon picture of the perpetrator was expected to be published on Thursday. His identity is not ascertained.
Authorities in Houston appeal to the public for tips that could lead police right in the search for the suspect. Ed Gonzalez says to be well aware of the strong feelings that the deed brought in some of the city’s population. There is talk among the people about the deadly violence the family was exposed to could be racially motivated.
” We do not, however, by tunnel-vision focus on a single specific subject. We are engaged in present an investigation with great breadth, ” says the sheriff.
involved in the case with the seven-year-old girl, says to the local newspaper Houston Chronicle that he will take for likely that the shots against the family were fired by the same person as on August 30, 2017 opened fire against the then-21-year-old A’vonta Williams.
on Wednesday, went, Williams and his mother in the same area as the now attacked the family. Suddenly were mother and son for firing from a white man who drove a pickup truck, a Ford F-150.
– We must tell it like it is. Black people are targets in this country, in this county, ” says Deric Muhammad, who rhetorically ask themselves if it really is a coincidence that two black families in the car are exposed to fire from a white man in a pickupbil in the same area in the space of just over a year.
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Any suspected perpetrators from the day has not yet been arrested, said Deric Muhammad. A’vonta Williams was hit in the legs of the shots that were fired, while the mother was wounded in the hip.
