A woman fatally shot a man early Wednesday outside a Houston-area business when he attacked her and crashed into several parked cars. 

Officers in the suburb of Pasadena responded to reports of a shooting just after midnight 1400 block of South Houston Road.

An employee at a laboratory business was exiting an electronic gate when a man hit her car window with his fist and began yelling, Fox Houston reported. She told authorities she did not know him. 

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Houston-area shooting and killing

A woman at a Pasadena, Texas business shot and killed a man who attacked her Wednesday, police said.  (Pasadena Police Department)

She left and closed the gate behind her, police said. 

The man got into a vehicle and drove through the gate and hit several parked vehicles, police said. Another employee, a female, was outside the business and confronted the suspect and was attacked. 

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The person lawfully had a gun, police said. The pair struggled and the woman shot him twice, police said. The man was taken to a hospital where he died. 

The woman was not injured.