student killed, 3 others injured in mass shooting at apartment complex in Prairie View, Texas

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (KTRK) — A Prairie View A&M student is dead and three other people are hurt after a shooting at an apartment complex early Thursday morning.

Prairie View police were called to The Gates of Prairie View at 625 Elm St. at about 5:30 a.m. in response to a shooting call.

At the scene, officers found a young woman dead with a gunshot wound. Police said the woman was going into her senior year at Prairie View A&M and was friends with another woman involved in the shooting.

Investigators said the situation started when a man broke into his girlfriend’s house nearby and assaulted her. The girlfriend then drove to The Gates of Prairie View to tell her friend, Chief Wilton White Jr. told ABC13.

Police said the boyfriend followed the woman to the apartment complex. When they arrived, they started arguing outside.

At some point, the friend who lived at the apartment complex and her boyfriend, who is a security guard, came downstairs to see what was happening. The friend’s boyfriend grabbed his gun before heading downstairs, White said.

The two boyfriends began arguing. That’s when police said the man accused of assaulting his girlfriend pulled out a gun and started shooting. Then, investigators said the security guard fired back.