3 dead, 2 wounded in shooting outside Houston strip club, police say

By: Crimesider Staff
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(CBS/AP) HOUSTON - A shooting outside a strip club in southwest Houston early Wednesday left three people dead and two wounded, according to city police.

Police spokesman Victor Senties said a huge crowd assembled soon after 3 a.m. apparently outside the parking lot of the Scores Cabaret strip club. Senties did not name the club, but the street address he provided for the shooting matches the same address for Score Cabaret, reported The Associated Press.

"There were hundreds of people in that parking lot," Senties said. "Somebody must have seen or heard something. We desperately need someone to come forward."

Senties said two men and a woman died at the scene while two men were taken to a hospital with gunshot wounds. There are no further details about their conditions. He described the woman who was killed as an innocent bystander.

More than 20 shots were reportedly fired in the parking lot of the strip club, according to witness accounts.

Senties said investigators do not yet know what sparked the shootings and no one was taken into custody.

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by thewatcherone June 23, 2012 8:33 PM EDT: Ban strip clubs.; Reply to this comment


by geezer-dude June 20, 2012 1:50 PM EDT: What does this story tell you? Stay away from this stuff. They normally aren't located in the best parts of town.; Reply to this comment


by formerlyluvnut June 20, 2012 1:46 PM EDT: Don't mess with MY stripper!; Reply to this comment


by chroniccomplainer June 20, 2012 12:33 PM EDT: Obviosly these folks dont have to work in the morning..; Reply to this comment


by dgammons June 20, 2012 11:24 AM EDT: Just like the wild west. yee haw. Maybe more guns would have helped protect those who got shot...then again, maybe more bystanders would have been injured....then again, if the bystanders would have had guns too....and, so it goes.; Reply to this comment