<p class="speakable">A <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/houston-and-galveston" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Houston family</a> is seeking answers after their 17-year-old daughter was shot and killed at a house party.</p><p class="speakable"><a href="https://www.fox26houston.com/news/houston-mother-grieving-after-daughter-killed-during-house-party-dagg-road" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><u>Fox 26 Houston reported</u></a> that Mariah Alatorre was at a party with friends on Dagg Road on the city’s South Side early Valentine’s Day morning when she was killed.</p><p>According to the station, Houston police said Alatorre was caught in the crossfire after someone began shooting.</p><p><a href="https://abc13.com/post/16-year-old-girl-killed-shooting-south-houston-house-party-dagg-road-hpd-says/18600800/?userab=abcn_du_cat_topic_feature_holdout-474*variant_a_control-1938,abcn_popular_reads_exp-497*variant_b_7days_filter-2077,abcn_ad_cadence-481*control-a-1962,abcn_news_for_you_exp-496*variant_a_control-2074" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><u>ABC 13 reported</u></a> that the teenager was taken to a hospital emergency room before being transferred to HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest, where she was later pronounced dead.</p><p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/mass-shooting-stockton-california-banquet-hall-leaves-multiple-dead-wounded" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong>MASS SHOOTING AT STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA, BANQUET HALL LEAVES 4 DEAD, 10 WOUNDED</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime/police-and-law-enforcement" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The police department</a> did not provide Fox News Digital with any other information, only stating that they would hold a news conference later in the day.</p><p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/crime" rel="noopener" target="_blank">No suspect</a> is in custody at this time.</p><p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/jealous-texas-woman-allegedly-launches-25-pound-gym-weight-romantic-rival-fitness-center" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong>JEALOUS TEXAS WOMAN ALLEGEDLY LAUNCHES 25-POUND GYM WEIGHT AT ROMANTIC RIVAL IN FITNESS CENTER</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://foxnews.onelink.me/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong>CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP</strong></a></p><p>"She believed that everybody was her friend," Yady Alatorre, the mother of the victim, told Fox 26.</p><p>"I would tell her, like, some people are not your friends. And she was just like, no, you just don't know them. They're my friends. And I wish she just understood that, you know, a mom knows best," the elder Alatorre added.</p>