Catfight ends in double tragedy after two women rolled into busy road while clawing at each other

Two brawling women were killed after they were hit by a car as their fight spilled into the middle of a busy Houston.

The tragedy happened in the early hours of Wednesday near the Cullen Food Mart in the southeast of the Texas city.

Police did not confirm the women’s identities, but said one was in her 30s and the other was estimated to be in her 50s.

The cause of their dispute remains unknown, but police said it was not the first time they had fought.

The women began fighting at around 3.30am and were seen rolling around on the ground while tearing into each other.

Eye witnesses pulled over and tried to call the police but they were struck by a red sedan.

The women were pronounced dead at the scene.

‘That sedan proceeded to continue down the street without stopping and rendering aid,’ David Rose, a sergeant for the Houston Police Department’s Vehicular Crimes Division, said.

Two women were killed after they were struck and killed by a car as they fought in the middle of a busy Houston street

David Rose, a sergeant for the Houston Police Department’s Vehicular Crimes Division, called the deaths ‘preventable’

‘I don’t know what caused these two women to fight, but the fight ended up in the street.

‘At some point cooler heads need to prevail. This is not the place to fight.’

As of Wednesday morning, Houston police were yet to identify a suspect.

Investigators were reviewing surveillance footage of the car that struck the women, but were still looking for more footage to identify the vehicle’s license plate, make and model.

The front quarter or undercarriage of the sedan could be damaged due to the nature of the crash, police said.

Rose said: ‘It is a crime to leave the scene of a crash where people are seriously injured or dead.’

The medical examiner’s office will take the women’s remains to the morgue to identify them.

Rose said: ‘Life is more precious than this. I don’t know what path these people took in life to end up dead on the street like this or why they got in a fight at three o’clock in the morning.

The cause of their dispute is unknown but police said the women were known to each other

The fatal crash happened Wednesday around 3.30am near the Cullen Food Mart in Houston

‘It’s sad. These people have families that care about them, they have people that will miss them, and they’re gone.’

The double tragedy, Rose added, was ‘very preventable.’

Houston reported 318 fatal car crashes in 2024, according to the Texas Department of Transportation.

The Houston Police Department told the Daily Mail there were no further updates to provide at this time.