A tremendously tragic situation has emerged out of Houston, Texas, where a father took the law into his own hands and shot his daughter’s stepfather three times after the stepfather was accused of sexually assaulting his daughter.
The incident occurred at about 8:30 in the evening on Friday, January 5th. It was apparently precipitated by the young girl writing a note to her mother in which she indicated that her stepfather, who is 30 years old, had sexually assaulted her.
After her mother saw the note, she picked the daughter up from her biological father’s house and returned with her to the mother’s home, shared with the stepfather. The girl’s biological father then came over to the house later in the evening to discuss the allegations with the mother in her apartment.
But then the stepfather arrived and the biological father and mother confronted the stepfather over the allegations the daughter had raised in the note to the mother. The stepfather denied the assault as the family discussed the matter and the allegations. The daughter and mother then left the home, stepping outside, and things escalated dramatically.
After they exited the house, the father used a firearm to shoot the stepfather three times. The gunshots were to the stepfather’s stomach and leg, with the rounds hitting him once in the stomach and twice in the legs. The stepfather is in the hospital and had to undergo surgery for the gunshot wounds but is expected to survive them.
After the shooting, the biological father stayed at the scene of the shooting and cooperated with the police officers to go over what happened. However, he could still face an assault with a deadly weapon charge over the incident. Further, the stepfather could be charged, as police investigators are reviewing the allegations with the child to determine if they are accurate.
Watch the police discuss the situation here:
As can be heard in the video, the police, describing the incident, said, “Okay, 700 Bates wood around 830 is when all this occurred 830 at night. A lot of details to this. We have one adult male, should be in his, we believe in his mid-30s, has been shot in the stomach and twice in the leg.”
Continuing, the police added, “We have one individual who is our suspect to the shooting, that as of right now looks like he’s going to be charged with aggravated assault, deadly weapon. So how this how all these folks are connected is the individual that did this shooting was married to a woman. It’s an ex-wife who is now married to the individual that was shot. So ex-husband, his wife is married to another. His wife is married to another man, and they’ve been married quite a while. The original marriage between our suspect and the wife, they actually have four kids together, ages from 17 to 10. And they actually live close by. One lives in an apartment complex on one street one lives on, on the other side of the street.”
They then said, “And they evidently are good about sharing the kids back and forth. Well, today, the 12-year-old little girl wrote a note to her mother saying that she had been being sexually abused by her stepfather, who is the current husband. The daughter, the mother sees the note immediately goes gets her daughter, who is actually at her real father’s house, and takes her back to her apartment. And when when they her ex husband gets home. The real father gets over there. She tells him he comes over and they start to discuss it as they’re discussing it. The stepfather who is being accused steps in and he’s denying what’s going on. When, when that occurs the daughter and the ex-wife, they step out of the apartment. And that’s when things got heated, obviously, between the real father and the stepfather, the real father shot the, shot the stepfather the three times and the stomach and the legs.”
Continuing, the police said, “He he’s he was on this not at that scene but at his apartment when officers got there he’s cooperating. Our investigators are working through it there. We’re also there. They’re also working with the daughter to determine all the facts of that as far as the sexual assault goes. So prayers for that whole family. The suspect that it was is it being accused of the sexual assault that was shot he is in surgery is in bad shape, but we believe he’s possibly going to make it. So like I said a lot of moving parts. Our investigators are on top of everything and we will they will work the whole you know, get to the bottom and hopefully everything will work out for the best. Okay, any questions a lot to that one? Yeah. Okay.”
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