‘Driver Was Out of Control and Angry’

One man is dead and several other people are wounded after a man reportedly “intentionally hit” patrons outside a gay bar in the Montrose area of Houston early Thursday morning, according to a local ABC affiliate on Twitter:

OUT-OF-CONTROL DRIVER: Police say a man intentionally hit several people with a car after a fight outside a bar in the Montrose area. | @CourtneyABC13 spoke to a friend of one of the victimshttps://t.co/8hiHzw3q28 – ABC13 Houston (@abc13houston) March 22, 2018

“The incident occurred outside Bayou City Bar & Grill, at Grant Street and Hyde Park Boulevard in the heart of Houston’s LGBTQ neighborhood,” John Wright at Houston’s OutSmart Magazine reports.

“Investigators say the driver was out of control and angry,” ABC 13 reports. “Police say he had gotten into an argument with several people before he jumped in his car and drove through the parking lot just hitting people.”

NOW: police say an out of control driver hit 4 people on the street. That driver apparently got into a fight with people outside a #Montrose bar, then got into a car and started ramming people. #abc13 pic.twitter.com/tQYI1wCiIE – Courtney Fischer (@CourtneyABC13) March 22, 2018

BREAKING: police confirm the man run over and pinned by driver of this car has died in the hospital. Investigators say driver mowed down at least 4 people outside Montrose bar after closing. Police don’t know why. #abc13 pic.twitter.com/GVFOwkifiX – Courtney Fischer (@CourtneyABC13) March 22, 2018

The man who was driving the car is in custody. KPRC’s Cathy Hernandez reports police say the “driver will likely face murder charges.”

Witnesses recall moments driver mowed down several people in the parking lot of a Montrose nightclub following a fight. –> https://t.co/r9FvEb5cG0 pic.twitter.com/7IgAaAVnDj – KPRC 2 Houston (@KPRC2) March 22, 2018

A friend of one of those injured “said they were just leaving the bar when they saw people fighting, and that’s when the car hit his buddy.”

“Innocent bystander. A definite innocent bystander. He didn’t know anyone who was fighting. We were just talking and before we knew it, he was under the car,” he told ABC 13.