HOUSTON – A woman died Tuesday moments after investigators said she stole from a man experiencing homelessness while he was sleeping behind a gas station in southeast Houston.
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Houston police said they received a call around 5:30 a.m. for a shooting at a gas station on Telephone Road and Golfway Street.
When they arrived, officials said they found an unidentified woman dead from several gunshot wounds in the back of the gas station.
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Based on preliminary evidence, police said the shooter, a 34-year-old unhoused man, was sleeping in a makeshift bed when a woman “with a large stick brandished as a club” walked over to him and stole a backpack with all his belongings.
The man woke up and fired several shots at her, killing her, and took out a cell phone from inside his backpack and called 911.
Police have not identified the shooter, but said he stayed at the scene and “has been cooperative with investigators.”