Legends Poker Room Shooting: Houston Killer Claims Self-Defense

A adult male fatally shot exterior a fire hook elbow room inwards Houston, Texas, Midweek forenoon had tried to slip his killer’s car, according to police.

This is the in vogue(p) in a spate of violent incidents inwards and around the Legends Poker Room inwards East Houston.

Early reports from ABC13 Eyewitness News that the organic structure of a woman had been found exterior Legends proved to be inaccurate.

The Houston Police Department later told the country intelligence line that they had responded to a call up most a shooting at 3:56 a.m. inwards the parking lot.

But the dupe was a manlike who had earliest tried to rob a adult male out of doors the nearby late-night Mediterranean eatery Cafe Awtar, constabulary said Wednesday.

Failed Car-Jack

Witnesses saw the deceased exact the crap-shooter helping hand over the keys to his young Chevy Corvette. The possessor of the vehicle barb the man “in self-defense” and was “returning fire,” according to Sam Houston cops.

HPD Detective Jason Campbell told ABC13 the shooter believed his “life was inwards danger.”

The injured machine thief and so jumped on top of a moving vehicle, which came to a hold outside Legends.

That shooter is cooperating with our investigation, and he has since been transported knock down to (HPD headquarters) where he is beingness interviewed by detectives. That suspect is deadened on view via gunshot wounds,” Joseph Campbell told ABC13.

Shooter Opens Fire

Last month, PokerNews reported that players at Legends were forced to duck for cover version below tables when an unidentified torpedo began open-firing into the stove poker room. No one was suffer inwards the incident but responding law officers found o'er 40 racing shell casings at the scene.

There has been no promulgation of an stay past Houston law in that incident.

This was simply a week after a non-fatal shooting at a barber’s shop in the same dismantle of businesses.

In January, a adult male armed with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle attempted to rob the salamander room but was wrestled to the earth past certificate staff. One member of faculty suffered a dislocated shoulder joint in the incident.

A month earlier, a scrap stone-broke out between a dealer and the well-known poker game pro Sammy Farha, who was punched in the face. Farha has long had a report for blowing up dealers, something he has previously denied  to this reporter.

This is the sort of publicity Legends tin can considerably manage without, especially because TX stove poker rooms exist in a legally grayness country and are currently being challenged.

Casino.org has reached out to Legends for comment.