HOUSTON — Two teens are dead and multiple others are injured after a shooting at what police are calling a makeshift club in north Houston.
The shooting happened around 11:20 p.m. Saturday on Jensen Drive at Topping Street.
Houston police said that when officers arrived at the scene, they saw many people running out of the club. Several people were injured and were treated at the scene.
Police said there is no information on a suspect or how the shooting started.
A 16-year-old boy was pronounced dead at the scene, and a 16-year-old girl died at a hospital.
Three other people were shot, including a 13-year-old who police said is in critical condition.
Assistant Chief Luis Menendez-Sierra urged witnesses to come forward with information.
"We are assuring the public that we are going to put all our resources in finding out what happened here tonight and who did this so we can bring them to justice," he said. "If you were here tonight, we need your help."
Menendez-Sierra said it appeared the party was organized on social media.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 713-222-8477.
Houston Mayor John Whitmire and Houston Police Chief J. Noe Diaz were also at the scene. Whitmire spoke briefly.
"I'm here to support our first responders, learn the circumstances of a tragedy," Whitmire said. "I'll be following this for several days to see how something like this is created—an impromptu party, I'd call it."
Whitmire said the party was unregulated and security either wasn't there or took off after the shooting.
"It's a tragedy, I feel for the families. We ought to keep them in our prayers," Whitmire said. "We lost some young people tonight that was very preventable if they didn't come to locations such as this. So let me go back to learn what I can."
Watch the update HPD and Mayor Whitmire gave at the scene: