A swarm of gunshots at an apartment complex in northeast Harris County sent neighbors ducking and diving for cover Tuesday evening. The incident left dozens of bullet casings throughout the parking lot and in people’s homes.
A neighbor’s surveillance video shared with ABC13 captured most of the shootout at 7:09 p.m. at the Autumn Pines Apartments on Greens Road, north of the Eastex Freeway-North Beltway 8 interchange. Dozens of gunshots could be heard for approximately 30 seconds as multiple people fired their guns at one another.
The bullets struck multiple units across several buildings, hitting neighbors’ garages, windows, bedrooms, and even one woman’s flat-screen TV.
Ida Leffall said she was watching a movie with her son and his girlfriend when they heard the bullets ring out.
“Everybody got on the floor. I dived on the floor and crawled behind the loveseat. We were just hiding because we were so afraid. I was thinking, ‘Oh, God. Please let them stop,'” Leffall said. “Bullets don’t have a name on it. It can just kill anybody. All I thought about was how our lives could have been gone in the blink of an eye.”