On the evening of April 27, 2024, at about 9:50 p.m., Houston police responded to a shooting at 8100 Martin Luther King Boulevard. Officers found 24-year-old Sarah Taplin suffering from a gunshot wound; she was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators say an argument had broken out between Sarah and an unidentified woman in a parking lot. During the altercation, Sarah’s brother, 35-year-old Richard Taplin, allegedly obtained a firearm from someone nearby and began firing at the fleeing woman, reportedly discharging rounds indiscriminately into a crowded gas station parking lot across the street.

Sarah was struck and killed in that chaos. Richard fled the scene and was later charged with murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and unlawful carrying of a weapon with a felony conviction. He was arrested in Phoenix, Arizona, on May 20, 2024, and held in Maricopa County Jail pending extradition to Harris County.

Is anyone with information about what led to the argument or who the unidentified woman might be asked to come forward?