HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) – Investigators are searching for the person responsible for shooting a man Friday night at a hotel in northern Harris County.

MPs were called to the Camelot Inn after someone fired a gun when a second call came from a hospital about a man who was dropped off with a gunshot wound to the head, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.

The man was pronounced dead in the hospital.

A surveillance video showed the victim got into an argument with someone at the hotel that led to the shooting, investigators said. In addition to the vehicle that left the crime scene with the victim, inmates of one of the hotel rooms fled in two different vehicles.

“All we could say is what we got from surveillance videos,” said Sgt. Greg Pinkins of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said. “And what we found out is that a vehicle stopped in the parking lot. There is a kind of verbal argument between the two parties and then there is an exchange of fire. “

The victim, identified as a 32-year-old black man, was shot dead when someone opened fire from the hotel’s balcony on the second floor. He ended up in the hospital after escaping the hotel in a Dodge Challenger with another person reportedly in the vehicle. The other person had not been identified until Saturday morning.

There was not a word to describe the other people or vehicles involved.

If you have information about the shooting, call the Harris County Sheriff’s Office Homicide Department at 713-221-6000 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.

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