Thought this was interesting enough to make my first post:
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=local&id=4000233
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=local&id=4000233
Woman shot while eating at SE Houston restaurant
By Deborah Wrigley
(3/16/06 - KTRK/HOUSTON) - Police are hunting for a shooter after violence spilled out of a southeast Houston restaurant Thursday. A woman at the seafood restaurant ended up with a bullet in her body...a bullet meant for another person. The man who was supposed to be the target of that gunshot wasn't injured.
It all happened at the Captain Benny's seafood restaurant on the Gulf Freeway near Glenview in southeast Houston. One moment, people were eating lunch and then...
"All the sudden, I see this guy pull a gun out of his shirt and 'bam' and at that point, I grabbed my sister and got her behind this silver Rendezvous," recalled witness Carl Beam. "Then the guy shoots again."
The shooter again missed the intended target, hitting instead a young mother as she sat at a table next to her husband and four-year-old child. She was shot in the abdomen and was crying out in pain.
It all began when a man was ambushed by two men to whom he's said to owe money. They got away, one staring down a concealed handgun instructor eating with his grandchildren. He had a gun, too.
We asked him if he would have used his gun.
"If my grandbabies would have been in danger, yeah, and my daughter, yeah," said witness Jim Hoge. "The best thing for me to do at the time after that lady was shot was to get her to safety."
Though the suspects got away, they did leave behind one important clue -- one of their trucks.
While the search for the suspects continues, the restaurant is back open for business.