One person has been hospitalized and five are under arrest following a disturbance that escalated into a shooting at Sugar Land’s First Colony Mall Thursday afternoon.
Sugar Land Police say a dispute in the parking lot led to the shooting at the entrance of the Dillard’s store. The incident took place around 3 p.m.
An off-duty Sugar Land police officer was reportedly in the mall and ran outside when he heard the gunfire. He was able to provide a description of the suspects to responding officers, according to a police spokesman.
Three suspects were apprehended by officers as they attempted to flee the mall. Another two were identified by witnesses and arrested in the mall parking lot.
Police also recovered a gun near the scene.
The victim was reportedly struck by a bullet in the left side and transported to an area hospital in critical condition.
Names of those involved have yet been released.
Officers are continuing their investigation into the incident.
yes jaghund, you have a point, but these low level thugs are obvious CRIMINALS! You cannot give me one part of the constitution that protects individuals or groups that physically harm other people, trade in illicit goods, and avoid paying taxes. They get due process, not my support.
I don’t have any guilt about protecting my family. Do you?
What?? he looked at him wrong??? That’s a good reason to shoot someone.
I have a lot of family. I draw the line. If you are a criminal that physically harms the weak and innocent, go to He77. My constitution does not allow you to walk freely in my country.
If you have kids that fit this description, Sorry, you messed up, not my fault, don’t make me or my family take a bullet for it.
They look like home grown punk thugs to me. See the pics for yourself.
They look home grown to me. I guess Fort Bend Co. does have criminals and doesn’t just rent out bed space.
Thought a few of you might like this report from another paper,
Police spokesman Doug Adolph said Demarkus Mccants, 21, of Fresno, and Edward Reed Jr., 18, of Stafford, each have been charged with aggravated assault.
Adolph said investigators do not believe the incident was gang-related or connected to any other incidents.
“If your dependent is a gang member is idenified as a gang member you face surcharges and taxes.”–I hope you don’t have any distant cousins in a gang conservative1 or any inlaws in your world. Why don’t you just shread the rest of the constitution while you are at it. I’m more worried about criminals in government than those outside of it.
How about applying similar tactics to the gangs that they used against the mob? Apply RICOH style laws and tactics; use their financial misdoings to put them in jail for dozens of years if not forever. Plus with RICO the feds, once they figured out you were mobbed up, they could freeze and seize assets.
How about making known, repeated association with a gang member a criminal offense. Not a serious one, maybe a misdemeanor but repeated charges climbing to the felony level. I’m sorry, but any who is hanging out with gang members or doing business with them is either planning on criminal activity or has committed criminal activity in the past.
I know these are draconian measures, and I would hate to see us have to go to these levels, but in order to strike at the root of gang problems you have to hit them hard, repeatedly and where it hurts.
Nothing wrong with AMC Theater. Nothing wrong with the mall. Nothing wrong with simple economic activity. What is wrong is the allegiance to other forms of structural control that are not our Family or State or National governments.
Those organizations are called Criminal Gangs.
It is real simple folks. You track them down and incarcerate them and eliminate them if necessary. ( do we have any hunters that are up to the task? ) You identify the criminal gang. Identify the individual gang members and if any gang member commits a crime, the whole gang is arrested and convicted. Therefore, being an identified criminal gang member becomes a crime in and of itself. You outlaw more than 1 gang member from being in a public place together ( a quorum, sound familiar ) You outlaw gang members being within 1000 feet of a school, church, or park – which means they cannot attend schools. You outlaw gang members holding any license, owning a gun or owning property, or having title to any vehicle. Not allowed to use public transportation services, etc. I mean outlawed.
Before you get scared about civil rights, I am not talking about being a democrat or republican. I am not talking about being a tea party supporter. I am not talking about environmentalists. I am talking about being a criminal gang member. A CRIMINAL ! One that is in a group that is formed to commit crimes.
Other suggested restrictions are: If you rent property to a gang member, you are surcharged. If you sell a car to a gang member you are surcharged. etc. If your dependent is a gang member is idenified as a gang member you face surcharges and taxes. Make gang crimes x4 on sentences.
The bottom line is you and every other resident of Sugar Land must feel that this type of crime is acceptable. Otherwise you wouldn’t allow it. I wonder what our elected officials will do to combate this gang activity?
Concealed handgun license – here I come!
More Houston punk thugs invading SL…One of the bad things about being so close to the freeway.
Wow, I feel like I have made the trip already. A Most Happy New Year to you too!
But here we are, and truly the winters are nice. But the shootouts at the OK Mall are a bit much! Anybody want to talk about the absurdity (financial and loss of life)of the “Drug War,” or is it too early yet?
“Put up one wall between Richmond/Rosenberg and Sugar Land and put up another wall on 59S to keep out the Southwest Houston element.”
You forgot about the wall for Mo City. If you walled yourselves in, who would work for YOUR city. Are you too blind to see the demograghics of the Land O’ Sugar. Life is not sweeter in sugar land. There is just a sugar facade!
patriot missive,
Since you mentioned the East—-Oh, how I yearn to return East of the Mississippi. I’m a romanticist; love to travel by train. Travel by train from any place East of the Mississippi with a sleeping car compartment and dining wonderfully in the dining car all the way up the east coast straight up to Boston with stops along the way to visit points of historic interest: Stop by The Wren’s Nest: home of the Brer Rabbit in Atlanta, Georgia and sleep at that Bread & Breakfast featured in Martha Stewart’s Living Magazine in Palmetto, GA; drop by the Biltmore mansion in North Carolina; visit historic places of Virginia, Washington, D.C., stop and dine on scrumptious crab cakes on Maryland’s Eastern shore; see the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia; catch a Broadway show in New York, and eat Boston beans in Boston.
Everyone else in my household are all Texans so I’m out numbered because they think everything they want or need is already in Texas. Plus, they love their favorite team and cannot bear to be too far from them—“Those Cowboys”!
Forgive my digression.
Happy New Year!!!
I’m thinking about going back East. Too many yahoos.
The mall should have seen this coming.
Both the mall and the movies have become hang outs for hispanic and african american gangs. To many fights and gunshots.
Quickly out of he news so we’ll all go back and spend.
I attended the protest meeting many years ago when AMC was planning to build the theatre.
Neighbors warned about property values dropping and crime rising, They were dismissed as kooks.
I remember the AMC rep saying how there would be jobs for our kids selling tickets- now they’ve all been replaced by credit car machines.
Put up one wall between Richmond/Rosenberg and Sugar Land and put up another wall on 59S to keep out the Southwest Houston element.
Not a good way to start the new year. I am surprised that the Mall allowed this information to be released. They usually are very sensitive to anything that might keep shoppers away.
Goodness gracious!
Why is it that tragic happenings often occur during the holiday season?
Does it result from over indulgence of everything, too much holiday off time, and someone or some ones cannot handle it—goes stir crazy and off the deep because of not being able to maintain prolonged, positive engagement in too much cheer and happiness and suddenly does the unthinkable?