HOUSTON — Three nurses visiting a hookah lounge in Houston were in the right place at the right time, helping to provide medical assistance to a disc jockey early Sunday, authorities said.
The shooting occurred at the Big J Hookah Lounge at about 3:30 a.m. CDT, KHOU-TV reported.
Houston police said the DJ was shot in the stomach but were not certain if he was the intended target, KTRK-TV reported.
”We don’t know if it was intentional. It’s kind of up in the air right now,” Houston Police Department Lt. Ignacio Izaguirre said during a news conference. “Whether the suspect was inside the entire time, or he had just entered. It was pretty packed at the time when it happened, and the music was going on. We don’t know.”
In the confusion, the nurses stepped up and tended to the disc jockey until first responders arrived, KRPC-TV reported.
“Apparently there were some nurses from the New York area,” Izaguirre told reporters. “After they found out that the DJ had sustained a gunshot wound, they began to render aid until HFD (Houston Fire Department paramedics) arrived.”
The DJ was taken to an area hospital and is expected to survive, KHOU reported.
A suspect has not yet been identified, Izaguirre told reporters.