Crime & Safety
Flag-Draped Man Impeding Traffic Fatally Shot By Houston Police
Two-year veteran Ashley Kelley responded to 7100 block of Beechnut Street to find man striking cars with flag pole prior to shooting him.
HOUSTON, TEXAS — Wrapped in a flag in impeding traffic while striking vehicles with a flag pole, a man was fatally shot in southwest Houston on Wednesday evening by a police officer after he is said to have charged at her.
The incident occurred along the 7100 block of Beechnut Street near Fondren Road shortly after 6 p.m. Houston Police Department Executive Assistant Chief Troy Finner told reporters after the shooting that the man assaulted Officer Ashley Kelley upon her arrival at the scene, prompted her to retreat. The officer than deployed her Taser to no effect before the man charged at her again, prompting the officer to fire her gun.
Finner said the officer fired just one shot, hitting the man in the chest. The suspect was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Police said the man had assaulted two other people before police arrived.
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Kelly is a two-year police veteran working out of the Gessner station.
Executive Asst Chief @TroyFinner Media Briefing on Officer Involved Shooting https://t.co/xiTLv6D9t3
— Houston Police (@houstonpolice) November 15, 2018
Investigators are en route to an officer involved shooting at 7100 Beechnut near Fondren. Preliminary information is an HPD officer discharged her weapon and struck a male suspect whose been taken to a hospital in unknown condition. The officer is ok. PIO is en route. #hounews
— Houston Police (@houstonpolice) November 15, 2018
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