WILD WEST SHOOTOUT IN WILD WEST HOUSTON

Shootout with AR-15s and the SWAT response leaves two dead, six wounded including two cops, a police helicopter with five bullet holes and a gas station on fire

Talk about the shootout at the OK Corral, well how about what happened Sunday morning in Houston. It makes the OK Corral shooting look like a Memorial Day picnic.

It seems as though two Rambo idiots armed with AR-15s decided to go on a shooting spree. The movie-like event started around 10:15 a.m. in a residential neighborhood of west Houston. The pair fired at passing cars, narrowly missing the drivers. A stray bullet killed a man peering out a window. Other stray bullets sat a nearby gas station on fire.

When the first cop cars arrived, the Rambos fired on them. The windshield of one cop car was riddled with 10 bullet holes and its hood had at least three bullet holes. The officers in that car were very lucky not to be hit. A police helicopter arrived and was promptly hit by five bullets. The officers in the whirlybird also escaped injury.

Then the HPD SWAT team arrived and put an end to the nonsense, killing one of the Rambos and critically wounding the other.

The shootout lasted past 1 p.m. By the time it was all over, three civilian bystanders and two cops had been wounded. The officers were not seriously injured.

Bob Walsh often wrote about the frequent shootings in his hometown of Stockton, California. I’ll bet that Stockton never saw anything approaching that wild west shootout in wild west Houston.

UPDATE: Apparently there was only one Rambo and he was Army veteran Dionisio Garza III, 25, who served in Afghanistan. Garza, originally from San Bernardino, California, may have been suffering from PTSD.