Teen shot in Humble home, friend arrested on assault charge

A night inside a Humble-area home ended with a 19-year-old fighting for his life and an 18-year-old friend in custody after deputies say a gun went off in an upstairs room on Spring Brook Pass.

The shooting happened in the 10700 block of Spring Brook Pass in Harris County. Investigators said the 19-year-old was shot in the head and was taken first to a nearby 24-hour emergency room, where a woman at the home drove him before he was airlifted by Life Flight to Memorial Hermann Medical Center. He was listed in critical but stable condition.

The Harris County Sheriff's Office arrested an 18-year-old man and charged him with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Deputies described the suspect as a friend of the victim, and investigators said the shooting was being treated as accidental. The sheriff’s office also said two teenage girls told investigators the shooting was accidental.

Even with that account, deputies said the case inside the home pointed to something more than a single mishap. Lt. Roosevelt Berry Jr. said officers found evidence that some type of crime had occurred upstairs, and ABC13 reported the shooting took place in an upstairs room. Deputies said they had not recovered the gun used in the shooting, but they did find a second stolen gun at the residence.

That detail leaves the arrest answering only part of what neighbors in Humble and north Harris County need to know. The 18-year-old’s charge confirms prosecutors are treating the shooting as a serious felony, but the accidental-shooting claim, the missing weapon and the stolen gun still raise questions about how the firearm was handled and what else was happening inside the home.

The incident added another alarming call to a part of Harris County where residents expect quiet streets, not a helicopter response and a teen shooting. The sheriff’s office said its Public Affairs Division and Media Relations team handle public communication and records requests tied to major incidents like this one, which means more details could emerge as investigators sort out what happened in the upstairs room and whether additional charges are warranted.