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Three Suspects Arrested After Youth Baseball Coach Shot During Game

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Charges have filed against three men in connection with the shooting of a youth baseball coach during a game this past Sunday in the Houston suburb of Katy, according to the Waller County Sheriff’s Office.

Shocking footage of the incident shows players and coaches scrambling to get off the field just as a game between the Texas Colts and the Houston Warriors was about to get underway. One Colts player, 11, told KPRC, that he was forced to “bear crawl” off the field.

Houston Warriors founder Andy Baize said the injured coach was saying a pregame prayer at the time of the incident. “He literally took the bullet for a child that was to his left, and so thankfully we avoided a major disaster. Still very, very emotional over it,” Baize told KHOU 11.

The injured coach was shot in the shoulder and was assisted by bystanders, one of whom tied a tourniquet in order to stop the bleeding. “When he was struck by the bullet, his first reaction was to get down to the ground, cover his kids and get them to a safe space,” Baize said.

Police believe that the shooting was a result of indirect gunfire coming from three individuals who were target shooting from a nearby pasture in the direction of the field Mahmood Abdelsalam Rababah, 23, Ahmad Mawed, 21, and Mustafa Mohammad Matalgah, 27, were arrested on felony charges of deadly conduct with a firearm. Their bonds were set at $100,000 each, KHOU 11 reported.

Field owners had initially alerted police to the possibility of illegal hunting, which is common in the area.

“People shoot on their land all the time. At the time we were unaware of anything in season,” The Rac, the venue’s official title, wrote in a Facebook comment. “Now that we have more information, we know that their were 3 individuals target practicing 600/700 yards away.”

“We need to look at where people are shooting and people are hunting, because it’s not safe for our kids,” Kelly Bierman, the mother of one of the Colts players, told KPRC.

 

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