Houston Officers Shooting: Suspect Arrested, Injured, Police Say

HOUSTON, TX — The suspect in the shooting of three Houston police officers was taken into custody after barricading himself in a Fifth Ward home for several hours Thursday night.

The suspect barricaded himself in a single-family house on the 1800 block of Lockwood Drive. He surrendered to police at approximately 7:45 p.m., hours after he shot three officers from the Houston Police Department following a car chase that ended in a crash, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said.

The suspect had a gunshot wound to his neck and was taken to a hospital after police arrested him. Finner did not release the name of the suspect in a news conference Thursday night, but a KHOU 11 report identified the suspect as Roland Caballero, citing police sources.

The three officers were injured in a shootout in Third Ward at the intersection of McGowen and Hutchins streets. The suspect carjacked a white Mercedes and fled to the house on Fifth Ward, according to authorities.

The officers who were shot were identified by last name by HPD: Officer Gadson, 35, Officer Hayden, 32, and Officer Alvarez, 28. All three were taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital, and Gadson and Hayden have since been released. Alvarez is in stable condition, according to authorities.

Finner and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner met with the officers' families at the hospital.

"They were a little bit shaken but relieved their loved ones will make a full recovery," Finner said.

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