1 child killed, 4 others injured in shooting at flea market in Pearland, Texas: Police

Sarah Al-Arshani, USA TODAY
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Members of Brazoria County Sheriff's Department block the road leading to Cole's Antique Village and Flea Market after a shooting outside, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023, in Pearland, Texas, near Houston.
Members of Brazoria County Sheriff's Department block the road leading to Cole's Antique Village and Flea Market after a shooting outside, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023, in Pearland, Texas, near Houston.

Update: This story has been updated with information from the Pearland Police Department correcting that three children and two adults were shot, not two children and three adults.

Authorities in Texas are investigating after one child was killed and four others were injured at a shooting at a flea market on Sunday night.

Two adults and three children were taken to the hospital following a shooting that police said began after an argument between two individuals at Cole's Flea Market in Pearland, Texas, 17 miles south of Houston.

The Pearland Police Department said police were called to the flea market just shortly after 5:30 p.m. where they found that three children and two adults were shot. A 10-year-old-boy died at the hospital, according to the Associated Press.

A 14-year-old girl, a 16-year-old boy and an 18-year-old man and were in the hospital Monday and a 37-year-old man was treated and released from the hospital. The 10-year-old boy, the 14-year-old-girl and the 37-year-old-man were bystanders to the argument, according to the Pearland Police Department.

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Details from authorities were scarce during a Sunday evening press conference.

"I’m not sure if they both had firearms, if one person had firearms, I do not know the number of rounds that were fired, but it appears as though it was two subjects that got involved in a disturbance and that’s what resulted in the shooting,” Pearland Police Department officer Chad Rogers said, according to Houston NBC affiliate KPRC 2.

Rogers in a video update said that two strangers exchanged gun fire during an argument and that one shooter was still at large.

Charges have not been filed as of Monday.

Rogers is asking anyone who was at the flea market Sunday and has any information to call the tip line at 281-997-5828.

Contributing: James Powel

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