Victor Manuel Saavedra Jr. was shot and killed outside his family’s northwest Houston home on the night of May 2, 2016. Neighbors reported the attack occurred around 9:30 p.m. in the 7000 block of Cole Creek Drive near West Tidwell Road. Two to three assailants severely beat Saavedra before shooting him multiple times; he tried to flee but collapsed and died near the house while his wife and children were inside.

A neighbor fired at the attackers, who fled in a gray Infiniti sedan, possibly a G35. Surveillance cameras were present at the residence, but the assailants remained unidentified and the motive was unclear. Saavedra, born May 23, 1980, in Brownsville, Texas, is survived by his children Kara, Christian, and Eden; his mother Leticia Weathers; and sisters Myra Saavedra-Garcia and Minnie Saavedra. A visitation was held May 7, 2016, at Integrity Funeral Care.

Anyone with information about the shooting or the gray Infiniti seen leaving the scene is asked to come forward.