Woman Shot Dead at Gas Station in Apparent Ambush

A woman has died in an apparent ambush in which a man fired several times into a parked car in Texas.

The Houston Police Department is looking for a male suspect after a woman believed to be in her mid-20s was killed outside a gas station on Old Spanish Trail near Scottcrest Drive in southeast Houston at around 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

Police say the female victim was sitting in the driver's seat of the car when the man ran up to the vehicle and fired several times with a pistol. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

Witnesses told police that the man approached the car from the other side of the street and his actions suggested he was targeting the victim in a deliberate act.

The suspect fled to the back of a nearby store, before he was picked up in a possibly burgundy-colored Toyota Corolla with a missing bumper.

Police said there was another person in the car at the time of the shooting. The man ran into the store for help after the shooting took place to get help.

"Our homicide detectives are here. They're pretty confident they'll figure out who did this. We don't know the motive of the shooting right now," Lieutenant R. Willkens said, via KTRK.

"There was one adult male sitting in the passenger seat of the vehicle when it was shot up. He's on the scene. He stayed here. He actually ran into the store after the shooting occurred. He's here cooperating with us."

Police said they are hopeful of finding out who carried out the attack, noting there are witnesses and surveillance footage from the scene.

The Houston Police Department described the suspect as around six feet tall and was wearing a navy or gray hoodie with dark-colored sleeves and blue or black shorts.

Houston Police have been contacted for an update.

Elsewhere, Houston police are investigating the shooting of a woman and the apparent suicide of a man which occurred Tuesday morning.

Officers responded to Alief Clodine Road after witnesses reported seeing a woman exiting her car while stopped at a red light and arguing with a man in his vehicle.

The man then exited his vehicle and followed the woman for a short period of time while still involved in the verbal confrontation. The man is then alleged to have pulled out a handgun and shot the woman, before turning the gun on himself.

Houston Fire Department paramedics pronounced the woman dead from multiple gunshot wounds. The man was also pronounced deceased from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.