Man Fatally Shot After Police Chase, Multi-Vehicle Crash in Houston
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iStock/Thinkstock(HOUSTON) — A suspect is now dead after being shot by at least one Houston Police Department officer following a chase in Texas that started in Houston and ended in east Harris County, a Houston Police Department spokesman told ABC News Wednesday.
“It started as a self-initiated patrol investigation in Houston city limits, but then the suspect fled into Harris County,” the spokesman said. “At the conclusion of the pursuit, at least one officer did discharge his weapon, but because it happened outside city limits, the Harris County’s Sheriff’s Office will take a lead role in the investigation.”
The chase ended in a multi-vehicle crash followed by a shooting, a Harris County Sherrif’s Office told ABC News in a statement.
The high-speed chase, multi-vehicle crash and shooting was caught on video from a helicopter.
The video caught the suspect’s car eluding police and driving into grass and eventually slamming into another vehicle at an intersection and then spinning into another vehicle, causing a pile-up.
The suspect can be seen coming out of the car and then reaching back into it, at which point Houston Police Department officers opened fired, ABC News affiliated KTRK-TV reported.
A large number of patrol cars from the Houston Police Department were involved in the chase, KTRK added, saying the end of the pursuit unfolded quickly in a matter of seconds elapsing between “the time the suspect struck the white car and the time officers opened fire.”
The chase ended near North Shore Middle School in Houston, KTRK reported.
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