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7-year-old Texas boy dies in off-road shooting
HOUSTON -- A 7-year-old boy has died after authorities say he was shot by a married couple who thought he and others who were off-roading were trespassing on their property.
Liberty County Sheriff’s Cpl. Hugh Bishop said Donald Coffey Jr. died Saturday morning, less than two days after he was struck in the head with a shotgun blast.
The boy, his father, his 5-year-old sister and a family friend were off-roading outside of Houston late Thursday when they were shot after stopping their vehicles so the children could go to the bathroom.
Donald Coffey Sr. had a pellet wound in his right shoulder. Coffey’s daughter, Destiny, was hit in the elbow but was in good condition.
A hospital spokeswoman said 30-year-old Patrick Cammack, the family friend, was upgraded from critical condition after being shot in the head.
Authorities allege the couple blasted the four people with shotguns after they mistakenly thought were trespassing on their property. Liberty County Chief Deputy Ken DeFoor said the gunshots rang out about 9 p.m., when Sheila Muhs fired once with a 12-gauge shotgun then handed it to her husband.
DeFoor said Sheila Muhs called 911 and told the dispatcher, “They’re out here tearing up the levee, so I shot them.”
Coffey and Cammack took a county road to a residential levee in the Westlake subdivision near the Trinity River in the Dayton.
Shortly afterward, DeFoor said, the shots were fired from about 40 yards away. DeFoor said the victims were unarmed.
DeFoor said the levee belongs to the subdivision and is not private property. He called the shooting “ludicrous.”
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