Good Samaritan rushes shot Montrose teen to hospital after drive-by discovery

A passing driver spotted a wounded 16-year-old in Montrose and rushed him to a hospital Monday night after a shooting in the 700 block of Colquitt Street near Stanford Street. When Houston police reached the scene around 9:30 p.m., officers found shell casings and drugs on the street, but no obvious victim.

The boy later turned up at a nearby hospital, where he was listed in critical condition. Police said the good Samaritan who drove by saw the injured teen and took him for medical care, a fast response that cut straight through the usual gap between a shooting scene and treatment.

Investigators had not yet gotten a statement from the teen because of the severity of his injuries, and they said they did not have a suspect description. That left officers with few public answers about who fired the shots or exactly what happened before the teen was found.

Police were still trying to sort out the circumstances around the shooting, including how the drugs found at the scene may or may not connect to the attack. Click2Houston separately reported that investigators believed the shooting may have involved two groups of teenagers, though that theory had not been confirmed as a final conclusion.

The scene on Colquitt Street underscored how quickly a central Houston block can shift from ordinary traffic to an active crime scene, then to a rescue. In this case, the teen’s trip to the hospital did not come from an ambulance arriving first, but from a stranger who happened to drive by, saw the boy in distress and got him to care.