13 Investigates found thousands of people are shot at every year in Houston, but only about 30% of those shootings end up getting solved.
A woman was hiding behind a trash can outside a small events venue in far southeast Houston when someone started screaming.
"I don't know who it is. It eats me alive that I don't know who it is," the victim told 13 Investigates' Ted Oberg. "I'm more upset with the police because I'm like, 'Are you guys even helping people that even go through this type of stuff?'" Over the last three and a half years, HPD cleared about 30% of the 15,567 aggravated assaults with a firearm incidents.
"These cases are worked until conclusion, either through the filing of charges, inactivating the case when all leads have been exhausted, or cleared through other investigative means. When there are no leads or all leads have been exhausted, the case is moved to an inactive status. If new information comes in later, such as a tip, new physical evidence, or a new witness comes forward, the investigation will then be reopened," the statement says.
"We're doing what we can, but we are 5,000 people in a city of millions. We need assistance," Martin said. "We need your eyes. We need your ears. If you know something about a serious violent incident that impacted one of your neighbors or one of your family members, we need to know because if we can stop that person before they then turn around and victimize someone else, we can actually make an impact.
"I can tell you crime's down 99%, but if you're a crime victim, that's not what your concern is. Your concern is, 'I was victimized,' or 'My loved one was victimized,' and you want to know what we're doing about it, so we never stop," Martin said. "Crime can be down, but we're not going to sit there and say, 'Well, it's down, we're good.' We're going to continue to pursue it.
"Firing any weapon in a city like Houston is dangerous," Martin said. "You send a bullet out of the barrel of a gun, it goes somewhere. It hits something - whether it's the ground, whether it's a tree, whether it's the side of a building or whether it's a person. Every time a gun is fired in this city, we have to take it seriously."
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