Employee cleaning hunting rifle accidentally shoots, kills a customer at gun range
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Shooting range injury on Dec. 12, 2017
HOUSTON (FOX 26) - Witnesses say an employee of the range was working on a hunting rifle when it accidentally discharged through a window. The gun then struck a customer who was walking through the gun range parking lot. According to the Harris County Sheriff's Office, the man died shortly after he was accidentally shot at a Cypress-area firing range.
Life Flight medical helicopter had arrived to the Hot Wells Shooting Range on the Northwest Freeway frontage road near the Barker-Cypress Road exit on Tuesday morning after the reported shooting incident.
HCSO and the Crime Scene Unit are investigating the case.