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Driver who killed 7-year-old Houston girl remains on loose

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez speaks during a news conference, Monday, Dec. 31, 2018, in Houston. Authorities are seeking the public's help in locating a man in a pickup who pulled up next to a car that was leaving a Houston-area Walmart parking lot Sunday and started shooting, killing a 7-year-old girl inside the car and wounding the girl's mother. (Nicole Hensley/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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The Associated Press
January 2, 2019 - 8:21 am
 
Updated January 2, 2019 - 8:29 am

HOUSTON — Authorities are searching for a driver who fired several shots into a car carrying a family in the Houston area, killing a 7-year-old girl and wounding the child’s mother.

Investigators on Monday released a surveillance video image of a red, four-door pickup truck from which the driver fired gunshots Sunday morning .

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez has declined to speculate on what prompted the driver to fire into the car carrying 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes, three of her sisters and her mother. Gonzalez says the shooting as “totally unprovoked.”

Jazmine’s mother suffered a gunshot wound to the arm and her 6-year-old sister was injured by shattered glass.

Jazmine’s father appeared with Gonzalez at a Monday news briefing. He pleaded with the public to help find the shooter.

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