HOUSTON, April 8 (UPI) -- Four apparently unrelated shootings left four people dead and four more wounded overnight in Houston, police said Wednesday.
A 22-year-old man was fatally wounded in the parking lot of a strip mall about 4:20 a.m. after attending a private birthday party for a 19-year-old woman at a bar there, the Houston Chronicle reported. Police said they had no motive for the slaying.
Shortly before midnight, police said three people were shot in southwest Houston when two men in a Ford Explorer chased two men on foot, got out and started shooting. The two pedestrians and a third man who may have been a bystander were shot and one died at the scene, the newspaper said.
A third shooting occurred shortly before 1 a.m. during an apparent robbery at the Black Widow tattoo parlor in northwest Houston. The shop's owner was shot dead. The customers weren't harmed.
About the same time, a traffic altercation left three people shot, one fatally. The condition of the two wounded victims wasn't clear.
