Two weeks after two North Shore HS football players were allegedly involved in a road rage shooting on Kuykendahl, one of them was shot and killed at a pool party.
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — A four-star high school football prospect who was allegedly involved in a road rage shooting on Kuykendahl Road earlier this month is now out of jail. It comes after a judge raised his bond from $20,000 to $150,000 in his aggravated assault case.
Charges against Chace Zion Wade Calicut, 17, stem from an incident on July 6. According to court documents, Calicut, a North Shore High School football player, and his 17-year-old teammate Isaiah Phillip, were in an SUV when they chased and confronted two other teens they knew from school. Court documents say Calicut repeatedly swerved, braked and tried to force the car carrying the two other teens off the roadway.
As the confrontation escalated, Phillip allegedly pointed a handgun at the other car. As the driver of the other car tried to escape by making a U-turn, investigators say gunshots came from the SUV, with both victims in the other car telling deputies they feared for their lives as they fled the scene.
A friend following behind witnessed much of the incident and told investigators that Calicut aggressively drove after the Sonata and that Phillip fired a weapon as the teen driver tried to get away.
No one was injured in the incident.
Both Calicut and Phillip were identified by witnesses and the complainants and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
In a post from a since-removed online fundraiser, Calicut’s mother said the football recruit “is in the battle of his life, is falsely accused, and being wrongfully persecuted.”
The teens’ lives took another turn two weeks later.
On July 19, Phillip was shot and killed at a crowded pool party in northeast Harris County, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded to a home on Liberty River Drive, where they found the North Shore High School student suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Phillip died at the hospital. Authorities said several other teens were injured in the chaos that followed, as partygoers scattered and shots continued to ring out.
Police have neither announced any arrests in the pool party shooting nor indicated a connection between the earlier Kuykendahl incident and the fatal shooting.
Calicut is now facing two aggravated assault charges in connection with the July 6 incident, while the community mourns yet another teen lost to gun violence.
Calicut’s parents were emotional in court on Wednesday. Neither they nor the attorneys in the case were willing to speak on camera after the hearing.
The teen bonded out on Thursday and was released from jail. Community activist Quanell X is speaking on behalf of the Calicut family and plans to hold a news conference Friday with the teen himself expected to be present
According to KHOU 11 legal analyst Carmen Roe, under Texas law, Calicut could be held equally responsible for the shooting.
“Because in Texas there’s something called the law of parties and if you aid or assist another person in committing a criminal act, you’re just as guilty as the person who commits the act and that is the allegation in this case,” Roe explained.
Calicut, who played safety at North Shore, had been offered a football scholarship to the University of Georgia ahead of his senior year of high school.
The UGA Athletics Department issued this statement about the situation: “NCAA rules restrict public comments about high school recruits and specifically, college coaches are prohibited from publicly commenting on a recruit until after the athlete has signed a National Letter of Intent (NLI) and an athletic grant-in-aid agreement.”
Anyone with information about either case is urged to contact the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.