Texas officials have the image of a pickup truck involved in an attack

Christopher Cevilla, 7-year-old father of Jazmine Barnes, speaks at a press conference on Monday, December 31, 2018 in Houston. Authorities are seeking public assistance to locate a man in a van who stopped Sunday next to a car leaving Sunday at the Walmart parking lot in Houston and began shooting, killing Barnes at inside the car and injuring the girl's mother. (Nicole Hensley / Houston Chronicle via AP)

HOUSTON – Houston investigators said on Monday that they had a video surveillance image of a pickup truck in which a driver fired several shots at a car carrying a family, killing a 7-year-old girl and injuring the child. Lieutenant Christopher Sandoval, sheriff of Harris County, told reporters that the image of the four-door red pickup truck had been captured shortly before the shooting on Sunday morning.

Sheriff Ed Gonzalez refused to speculate on what prompted the driver for the pickup truck standing next to and shooting at the car carrying Jazmine Barnes, three of his sisters and his mother.

Jazmine died on the scene, his mother was wounded in the arm and his sister was injured. broken glass. The mother, 30-year-old LaPorsha Washington, remained at the hospital on Monday.

Gonzalez called the shooting "totally flawless".

"The family should celebrate and spend time together in anticipation of the new year." We plan to bury this precious and innocent child, "said Gonzalez.

Washington, panicked, told KTRK -TV from his hospital bed that the shooter had accelerated after firing on his car, before slowing down and slowing down

"He intentionally killed my child for no reason," she said. He did not even know her, he did not know who she was. "

Authorities first announced that the shooting had occurred while Washington was leaving a parking lot in Walmart, but Gonzalez said Monday that it had passed on a service road nearby the family was heading towards a store.

The gunman was described as a bearded man wearing a red hood in his forties.

" I hope that at every moment, his conscience will eat him up ", ad clared Gonzalez later

Jazmine's father, Christopher Cevilla, who appeared with Gonzalez at Monday's press conference, begged the public to give relevant advice to the & # 39; the public. authorities so that an arrest can be made.

"My daughter was 7 years old, loving, caring, very passionate about people, very sweet, just an innocent girl," Cevilla said. "Very smart at school, there are just a lot of things stolen from me and my family right now that we will never be able to recover."