METRO Lift Driver In Critical Condition After Shooting

HOUSTON, TX -- A METRO Lift driver is in critical condition after he was shot outside a northeast Houston Shell station Monday morning.

The shooting happened at about 3:30 a.m., in the 2800 block of Quitman Road near the Eastex Freeway.

Investigators said that a clerk and a customer were in the store, when they both heard a gunshot.

Both went outside to see what had happened and that's when the METRO driver came over and said he'd been shot, KTRK reported.

The man was taken to an area hospital in critical condition.

Police are trying to determine what led to the shooting.

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