Man found dead with gunshot wound to head in Brownsville

bRownsville police are investigating another fatal shooting that left a man dead early Saturday morning.

Police arrived in the 100 block of Blanche Street around 2:29 a.m. in response to a shooting in the area.

At the scene, they found a “male injured with a gunshot wound to the head,” Brownsville police said on Facebook.

There is currently no information on a suspect and the identity of the victim remains unclear.

Authorities are asking anyone with information about the incident to contact Brownsville police at (956) 548-7000.

Further information will be published as it becomes available.

This is the third shooting in a week following the fatal shooting at the Brownsville Public Library main branch on Saturday, May 11th.

In this unrelated case, Vahid Khaledi, 71, was shot in the head and killed in the library because his niece Sarah Khaledi said she had gone too far in telling someone to keep quiet.

The suspect arrested in that shooting, Humberto Paz, 33, is being held at the Carrizales-Rucker Detention Center in Olmito on $3.25 million bond on charges of first-degree murder and second-degree aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Just the library recently reopened after it was closed for a week following the shooting.

Then on Thursday, two people were shot at the Flamingo Motel in the 1700 block of Central Boulevard. Brownsville police arrested Celestino Cruz Pulido, 17, and Mario Angel Castillo, 19, in connection with the case on Friday.

Pulido is charged with two counts of second-degree aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, third-degree unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, evading arrest or detention, resisting transportation and possession of marijuana and a controlled substance with bonds totaling $207,500 -Dollars held.

Castillo’s bond was set at $87,500 on charges of second-degree aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, failure to report a crime involving serious bodily injury and possession of marijuana.

This is a developing story.