Houston shooting: Dennis Gigetts murders while protecting pregnant girlfriend; survived a separate shooting a year ago

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) – The man who was fatally shot in southeast Houston on Thursday morning, when he told his pregnant girlfriend to flee, had survived a shooting a year ago.

Family members identified the victim as Dennis Gigetts, 28 years old.

Houston police were called to a shooting at about 1:35 a.m. on Broadway near Hobby Airport and found a man dead from a gunshot wound. He is lying in the parking lot.

“We don’t bother anyone. We just go to the store,” said Tanella Moore, Gigetts’ girlfriend, who is pregnant.

She said a group of people in the parking lot began to fight them as they were walking back home. Gigetts gets punched. Others join. He shouted a warning.

“‘Baby running! Baby running!” So that’s what I did,” Moore said.

Moore ran away. Gigetts was shot dead. No one was arrested or charged.

On Thursday night, at his grandmother’s house, Felicia Gigetts, his mother, hugged her 10-year-old daughter and recalled a year ago, this month, her son was shot after opening the door of his apartment on the other side of town. .

She said the case remains unresolved. That’s the context she feels about her son’s murder case now. HPD Director Troy Finner is in regular contact with the victim’s family. On Thursday, he called Gigetts.

“He assured me they would find those people,” she said. “But that doesn’t reassure me. My son is just another black young man who died. They’re not going to deal with this and that’s how I feel.”

And so she said she was leaving it to God. The family is having a funeral ceremony. Moore was thinking about the stories she would tell their unborn baby.

“Only good things. Their father was a hero. He was a fighter. He was very strong,” Moore said.

Houston police are asking anyone with contact information to call the homicide unit at 713-308-3600.

Felicia has established a gofundme page to help raise money to cover Dennis’ funeral expenses.