Shots fired at ambulance in east Houston

  HOUSTON (KTRK) -- An ambulance responding to a call about a shooting victim in east Houston Monday night ended up with bullet holes in it.

It happened near North Super and Canal Street. The first 911 call came in as a family disturbance with someone shot in the leg.

When his ambulance arrived, police say there was a man in his car blocking the road. Paramedics asked him to move and eventually drove around him, but as the emergency crews attended to the victim, the suspect pulled out his gun and shot the ambulance at least four times with paramedics inside.

After the shooting, the suspect apparently jumped out of his car and fled.

Officers found his car and with help from witnesses, say they're now focused on finding him.

"There's physical evidence inside the vehicle that matches up to the scene and we do have positive identification," said Sgt. Robert Torres with Houston Police Homicide Division.

Police say the man who was originally shot in the leg ended up being transported by another ambulance. He is listed in stable condition at Ben Taub Hospital and is expected to survive.

There were no injuries in the second shooting.

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Shots fired during robbery at NW Harris County game room

Shots rang out overnight at a northwest Harris County game room.

  HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Deputies are investigating an overnight robbery and shooting at a game room in northwest Harris County.

Authorities were called around 1:20am to Jack's Place on Veterans Memorial near Fallbrook. They found an employee with a gunshot wound in the foot.

Witnesses say a group of up to five men entered the business, demanded money and fired their weapons. Several customers were inside. They were robbed as well.

A pending investigation will look into the business itself.

"Our vice division is handling whether it's illegal or a legal operation," said Sgt. David Hillborn with the Harris County Sheriff's Office.

The employee's injuries are considered non-life threatening. The suspects remain on the run.

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Shots fired during police chase through three counties

  HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A high-speed chase through three counties came to a violent end Monday afternoon in Polk County.

At around 2:30pm Monday, Montgomery County deputy constables say Humble police spotted a driver speeding in the New Caney area. A MCSO deputy constable tried to make a traffic stop, but the suspect fled and authorities gave chase. Deputies say speeds reached 140 miles per hour during the chase.

Law enforcement realized it was a stolen vehicle out of Sugar Land.

DPS says they laid down a spike strip which slowed the suspect's vehicle down, but he kept going and rammed some deputies off the road. The suspect was attempting to ram a Liberty Co. sheriff's vehicle when the captain fired his weapon at the suspect's vehicle, which then stopped.

From SkyEye 13 HD, a large bullet hole could be seen in the driver's side window of the stolen vehicle. The suspect was not hit, but was transported to the hospital as a precaution.

The suspect was taken into custody near Highway 59 at 190, near the Livingston area.

He is facing charges of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle as well as felony evading arrest.

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Deputies: Shots fired during suspect chase in north Harris County

  HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Three people are in custody and the search is on for two others after a reported chase and shootout in north Harris County this afternoon.

Harris Co. Precinct 4 Constable Ron Hickman says a group of suspects robbed a Sprint cell phone store at I-45 and Cypresswood in the Spring area. Hickman says the suspects were armed and told the manager to put phones into a plastic bag, then forced the manager into the back of the store.

The suspects fled and the manager set off the panic alarm in the store, jumped into his vehicle and called 911 while following the suspects, according to Hickman.

The suspects spotted the manager following them and fired shots into his vehicle. He was not injured.

Precinct 4 deputy constables and Harris Co. Sheriff's deputies then located and pursued the suspects' vehicle, which eventually crashed into a pole near I-45 and Rankin.

Authorities say they apprehended three of the suspects, but the search continues for the other two.

We'll continue to follow this story and bring you any new information on Eyewitness News or here on abc13.com.

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Four shots fired at HISD bus with kids on board

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- HISD and Crime Stoppers are hoping a short video clip will help catch a criminal. The video shows what happened inside a school bus full of students when someone started shooting at it.

It happened last month on the frontage road of Highway 59 at Fondren Road in southwest Houston.

Investigators are hoping the public can help identify the shooter. A bullet struck near one of the windows on the bus. The close call left students and parents shaken.

It was a bus ride home Kirkland Jacobs won't forget.

"They were just shooting at us," Jacobs said.

"What was your reaction?" we asked.

"To duck."

Investigators are now releasing video from the bus of what happened with the hopes of catching the person responsible.

"It was kind of scary," Jacobs said.

HISD says the bus left Beechnut Academy with about 26 students on board on March 27. District police say some students on the bus flashed gang signs at someone walking on the street. That person then pulled a gun and fired at the bus on the Southwest Freeway Feeder near Bellaire.

Shavonne Hopper was trying to find her son that day.

"It's sad that children, because it was a group of teenagers right, are walking around like this is the wild, wild west ready to shoot at innocent buses," she said.

She called different bus barns after learning the bus had been involved in some type of incident.

"I'm so grateful that nothing happened to him," Hopper said.

One student had minor cuts from broken glass from a shattered window. The close call left many of the students shaken.

"All I hope is they catch whoever did it and why would you shoot at us if we are already in alternative school?" Beechnut Academy sophomore Michelle Rhodes said. "Maybe if the kids would have been sitting down and doing what they were supposed to, none of that would have happened. If I'd lose my life, my mom would have been crying hard -- anybody could have lost their life but I thank God we didn't."

If you have any information on the bus shooting you are asked to call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS. You can remain anonymous and claim up to $5,000 in reward money.

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