Someone's been firing guns at north Houston apartments

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Whoever fires shots in a viral YouTube video from north Houston is has probably been shooting in a crowded residential repeatedly for more than a week.

The video shows a fight at the Cranbrook Downs Apartments near the North Freeway and West Rankin Road. A car speeds away from a crowd of dozens, spilling a passenger onto the pavements before two shots send the spectators screaming.

And it's not the first time shots were fired at Cranbrook recently. Chief Mark Herman with Harris County Precinct 4 said his office has responded to five separate reports of gunfire in the last 11 days. Witnesses identified the weapon as a handgun.

"Shooting a pistol in an apartment complex is not something that we usually get calls on, so we are concerned," he said.

He said constables were called to the apartments Tuesday around 1:15 p.m., hours before the video was posted, but could not locate any suspects. The video, which gathered almost 122,000 views with two days of posting, appears to briefly show a man putting a pistol in his waistband as the panicked crowd disperses, then running away.

Herman said he's increased patrols in the complex. He also said he does not know if the suspect is firing the gun at the ground, in the air or somewhere else.