Houston youth baseball coach shot during pregame prayer with players; 3 suspects in custody:
27-year-old coach hospitalized after being struck in shoulder at field in Katy, Texas
Three suspects have been charged after a Houston youth baseball coach was wounded in a shooting during a pregame prayer with players on Sunday.
Mahmood Abdelsalam Rababah, 23, Ahmad Mawed, 21, and Mustafa Mohammad Matalgah, 27, were arrested on felony charges of deadly conduct with a firearm, the Waller County Sheriff’s Office said. They were each being held on $100,000 bond.
The chaos unfolded at Ameripark youth baseball field, known as The Rac, in the town of Katy, after three people fired weapons from a nearby pasture in the direction of the field as a youth baseball event was ongoing, the sheriff’s office said.
Video of the incident showed the 12-year-old Texas Colts players in light blue jerseys running frantically for cover as bullets flew past them. One adult appeared to be struck and fell to the ground near home plate.
The shooting victim was a baseball coach, owners of The Rac Katy said in a statement. He was struck in the shoulder in an incident "involving recreational shooting on a nearby property," the statement said.
The coach was given medical treatment on the baseball field before being taken to a hospital, officials said. He was released from the hospital later that day.
Officials confirmed to FOX26 Houston that the coach was a 27-year-old man. --->READ MORE HERE
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Three Muslim men have been charged in connection to a shooting at a youth baseball complex in Katy, Texas, a suburb west of Houston.
Shots were fired into the Ameripark youth baseball field, known as “The Rac,” when a youth baseball tournament was being played. Video obtained by KPRC 2 NBC News shows adults and children running away from the fields; “12-year-old Texas Colts players in light blue jerseys [were] running frantically for cover as bullets flew past them,” the news outlet reported.
A 27-year-old coach was struck in the shoulder, taken to the hospital and released. He was saying a pregame prayer with the team and when shots were fired, got down on the ground and covered players with his body, KHOU 11 News reported.
Days after the shooting, the Waller County Sheriff’s Office announced three suspects were in custody: Mahmood Abdelsalam Rababah, 23; Ahmad Mawed, 21; and Mustafa Mohammad Matalgah, 27. None had U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer holds, according to county jail records.
Each were charged with deadly conduct, discharge of a firearm, a felony offense. Each were held on low $100,000 surety bonds; only Mawed’s bond remains active.
While some have characterized the shooting as “recreational” or “target shooting,” others have raised concerns about Islamic violence in Texas. Recent high profile arrests in Houston include members of the Iranian National Guard, and an ISIS-linked Houston man who was indicted for planning an 9/11 style terrorist attack, The Center Square reported.
The shooting also occurred after Gov. Greg Abbott ceremonially signed a bill into law this month to ban Sharia law and Sharia compounds in Texas. Sharia law is based on Islamic texts that prescribe civil and criminal laws and penalties for followers.
HB 4211, filed by Republicans state Rep. Candy Noble and state Sen. Bryan Hughes, passed the legislature in May with strong bipartisan support. It passed nearly unanimously in the Senate, 30-1, and by a vote of 110-26 in the House. Abbott signed it into law on June 20 and it became effective immediately.
At the ceremonial bill signing, Abbott reiterated his and the legislature’s commitment to opposing Sharia law in Texas while also supporting religious freedom. “Religious freedom is a central part of the Texas Constitution,” he said.
However, one issue prompting the need for the new law he said is “what’s called the right to contract,” referring to an Islamic community in north Texas called EPIC City. --->READ MORE HERE
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