HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Houston police are searching for a suspect after a woman said she was pistol-whipped and shot during an attempted carjacking in Third Ward overnight.

The incident happened on Live Oak Street just after 2:30 a.m. Officials said the woman told Houston Police Department officers that she was coming to visit her boyfriend when the suspect approached and demanded her vehicle.

Officers said that there was a struggle, leading to the woman being pistol-whipped in the back of her hand and then shot in her left shoulder.