At approximately 10:40 p.m. officers with the Houston Police Department and the Jacinto City Police Department were dispatched to a location near the intersection of the East Freeway Service Rd and Holland Avenue in reference to reports of a shooting.
When officers arrived, they located a man dead in his vehicle.
Investigators believe the man was driving east in the main lanes of the East Freeway when he was shot in the head. The boys, aged 6 and 8, told officers they heard some sort of pop and initially thought someone had thrown a rock at the car.
When they saw their father slump over in his seat, they took control of the vehicle, using the steering wheel to guide it off the freeway and down the service road near Holland Avenue. Once the vehicle came to a rest, they immediately got out of the car and sought the help of a woman exiting a Chili’s restaurant nearby.
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