Homicide detectives with the Iowa Colony Police Department are investigating the double shooting that happened late Wednesday.
IOWA COLONY, Texas — A small town in Brazoria County was the scene of a double shooting just before midnight on Wednesday.
Iowa Colony police and Manvel EMS responded to reports of two people shot inside a home on Cabot Trail near Iowa Colony Boulevard, east of Highway 288. The call came in at 11:50 p.m. in the Hidden Trails section of the Meridiana Subdivision.
A man and a woman inside the home had been shot.
First responders performed CPR on the male victim, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The woman was transported by ambulance to a nearby Life Flight helicopter and flown to Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston. She had multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Iowa Colony Police Department.