By BOBBY HORN JR.
An 18-year old suspected gang member is in jail, facing charges that he shot a 14-year old boy, paralyzing him from the waist down.
Deon Quanell Gibson, is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He is being held in lieu of $50,000 bond. He will next appear in the 185th District Court on June 1.
On May 10 Dedrick Nash had been playing basketball at the park near Tidwell and Spaulding.
After going home for a while he went back to the park around 9 p.m. to bring home him older brother.
Houston Police Department spokesman Thomas Biggs, said that when he arrived at the park he walked into an altercation between reported members of the Crips and Bloods. Nash told police that he saw Gibson go to vehicle, take out a pistol and begin firing.
Nash, who tried to run from the scene, was struck in the back. The bullet lodged next to his spine, paralyzing him from the waist down.
The boy later picked Gibson in a police lineup, investigators say.
Biggs said that witnesses told police that the altercation actually started days before between members of the rival gangs, when one was beaten in a fight. The loser came back to the park, he said, looking for revenge. Facing the same person again when it appeared the fistfight would be a repeat of the previous fight, pistols were drawn and the firing began.
A 23-year-old man, believed to be a gang-member himself, was also shot in the upper leg breaking his fibula.