HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — An accused peeping tom was met with bullets Friday morning after allegedly smashing a window in Meyerland.
Konta Davis said the trouble began around 5 a.m. at the Life at Jackson Square apartments.
Davis said she was in the bathroom getting ready for work when a man appeared in her bathroom window.
“He’s asking me (if) I have a cigarette,” Davis said.
Davis said her brother-in-law managed to scare the man away, but hours later, when she was already at work, she said the man reappeared in the bathroom window and began smashing it with a hammer.
“My mom was in the bathroom as he burst (through). She thought somebody was shooting. That’s how bad. She said she just dropped to the ground and started crawling,” Davis said.
Davis’ sister, Derrion, said her husband went outside to confront the man, who she said was armed with a butcher knife in addition to the hammer.
“And shots just went off,” she said.
Derrion said her husband shot the peeping tom in the leg, and relatives then called police.
Eyewitness News captured the accused vandal limping to an ambulance while in handcuffs.
Police haven’t said if he’ll face charges, but Derrion said her husband was arrested and told he’d be charged with aggravated assault for shooting the man.
“I definitely don’t think that he deserved that. I think he deserved self-defense because that’s what that was,” she said.
Residents at the apartment complex tell Eyewitness News they’ve spotted the man peering in their windows in the past. They say he’s been squatting in a vacant unit.
“I literally am scared to actually be in these apartments or in this area anymore because HPD doesn’t take anything serious, like, they just let everything go around here,” Derrion said.
Police couldn’t confirm if the shooter had been charged, only saying that one person is possibly facing unspecified charges.
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