Overview
- Investigators say the shooting took place Tuesday in the 12700 block of Blue Timbers Court during a child custody exchange when a man rushed out and fired at the other parent.
- Authorities identified the victim as 36-year-old Marlon Sanders and the suspect as 38-year-old Gary Davis, who was arrested, charged with murder, and booked into the Harris County Jail.
- Officials say the incident involved a domestic history in which Sanders’s wife had a prior relationship with Davis and the child at the center of the exchange was fathered by Davis.
- Harris County Precinct 3 deputies, HCSO crime-scene investigators, and homicide detectives processed the scene, no other injuries were reported, and Sanders was taken to a hospital where he later died.
- The homicide investigation is ongoing and criminal proceedings are pending as detectives continue to collect evidence and the county works toward prosecution.