Man dead after officer-involved shooting in Houston

[Judi Lynn]

Source: KHOU-TV

Man dead after officer-involved shooting in Houston

USA Today Network
KHOU-TV, Houston 4:03 p.m. EDT July 9, 2016

HOUSTON — An officer-involved shooting left one man dead early Saturday morning in southeast Houston.

The incident occurred just before 1 a.m. Saturday on Cullen Boulevard near Ward Street. Police say two officers were on routine patrol, driving up Cullen Boulevard when they saw a man in the middle of the street armed with a revolver. The officers immediately came to a stop and stepped out of the vehicle.

Police then gave multiple commands to the man to drop the weapon, as did a witness standing next to him. According to police, the man pointed the gun up and then at the officers.

The officers both discharged their weapons and struck the man. Authorities say he died at the scene.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/07/09/man-dead-after-officer-involved-shooting-houston/86892138/

[Duckhunter935]

1. Suicide by cop

Sad

[still_one]

4. unfortunately, that is what it sounds like

[shenmue]

2. Oh jeez

[yeoman6987]

3. In the middle of the road waving a gun . Wow. I do wonder what he was thinking.

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. That's not far from University of Houston

Pretty close to the medical center too. The area is very mixed and going through gentrification.

[Skittles]

6. multiple commands from police and bystander

[Sand Rat Expat]

18. That's a ballsy bystander... NT

[Skittles]

20. may have been a pal of his

[Sand Rat Expat]

21. Could be. Probably was, now I think about it.

If the bystander weren't related to the situation in some way, I can't imagine the cops letting some random guy jump into a situation like that.

[TexasTowelie]

7. Unfortunate,

but what other choice did the police officers have in that instance?

The original story that I read on DU was implied that the man was not carrying a weapon and that the cops were being over-zealous.

[Skittles]

8. don't they all imply that?

there are real problems but I'm sure it's no picnic being a cop in this gun humping nation

[rusty quoin]

9. A guy I worked with with a hand gun on his front seat

told me he truely believed that more guns make us safer...oh...okay.

If I were a cop I would be scared shitless too knowing the good guy with a gun and everyone else was more armed than me.

[Skittles]

10. gun humpers always think guns make them safe

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biggest cowards on the planet

[Judi Lynn]

11. The rest of us will just have to face the future resolutely, take what fate gives us, poor us.

We will have to huddle in our houses praying all those burglars with guns aren't going to blow us all up.

We're .... Doomed from here to eternity
Lord have mercy on such as we.....

Awwwwww, we just can't go on any more.... Sob. We're just lost without some guns.

To be extra safe, buy extra guns! Try growing extra arms to use for shooting more.

[Skittles]

12. they want everyone armed and paranoid

and they are winning

[oneshooter]

22. But not as paranoid as you sound like. n/t

[Vinca]

13. That's why the legally armed black man at the Dallas BLM rally handed over his

long gun to a cop after the shooting started. He assumed, rightly, that he would be mistaken for the bad guy and shot. I suspect the guy you work with loves the macho feel of having a gun more than the actual prospect of using it to save a life. Chances are, if the worst case scenario happened, he'd pee his pants and hide in a closet.

[Indydem]

15. Also, he realized the tactical advantage of an officer having the gun.

A long gun with a scope would be far more effective than the officers handgun.

[Judi Lynn]

16. It was unloaded. n/t

[Vinca]

17. It was reported that his brother made him hand over the gun to a cop because

he was rightly worried that if his brother was spotted with the gun he'd be shot, no questions asked. I'm betting the brother saved the gun-toting brother's life.

[Judi Lynn]

19. Absolutely! They wasted no time throwing up his photo on national TV as a potential accomplice!

I'm sure you're right, and I'll bet he and his quick-thinking and acting brother are both glad it worked out without his being shot to hell and left dead, to be explained as an "understandable mistake."

[7962]

14. Actually, gun murder rate is nearly 1/2 what it was in '93,

with a LOT more guns out there now than then. And other gun crimes are down even more than that. And the rate was even higher before '93.
But we have 24 hr news & internet now to constantly show the same crime over & over again and talk to 50 different people about how they feel about it.
Certainly agree with your last sentence though, for sure.