Houston, Texas: Three Stabbed in Gulfton Street Parking Lot, One Possible Suspect Detained

Three men were stabbed in a parking lot in southwest Houston on Friday night, November 6, and all three were expected to recover, FOX 26 Houston reported. One possible suspect was detained.

The incident was reported at around 8:40 p.m. on Friday in the 6200 block of Gulfton Street, near the Southwest Freeway, Interstate 69, and Hillcroft Avenue, in the Gulfton area of southwest Houston.

What police at the scene said happened

Police at the scene said the three victims were in the parking lot when they were approached by two other people, FOX 26 reported. An argument went on between the group, and then one of the people who had approached the victims stabbed the three men.

Houston police South Gessner officers were at 6200 Gulfton, the Houston Police Department said in its official post on the incident. The department post described the three people taken from the scene as male stabbing victims.

No account in the reports reviewed described the weapon beyond the stabbing itself, and no report said that the men in the parking lot and the two people who approached them knew each other before the argument.

Stable condition and one detention

The Houston Police Department said the three male victims were transported in stable condition. Officials later reported that all three victims are expected to recover, FOX 26 reported.

One possible suspect has been detained, police at the scene said. The reports did not say whether the second person who approached the group was detained, and they did not describe any charge filed by Friday night.

The reports did not name the three victims or the detained person, and this article does not name them. Police gave no ages for the victims in the reports reviewed.

What remains unknown

FOX 26 said it is working to confirm other details and that its report will be updated when possible. That leaves the central questions of this case still open in the public record: what the argument in the parking lot was about, what led one person to stab three others, and what charge, if any, follows the detention.

For the Gulfton area, the facts that are confirmed are narrow and plain. Three men were hurt in one parking lot on a Friday night, officers from the South Gessner patrol were sent to the 6200 block of Gulfton Street, three patients went to a hospital in stable condition, and one possible suspect did not leave the scene free. Anything beyond that waits on the Houston police investigation and on the next official update.