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Off-Duty Harris County Officer shot and killed on the way home after picking up food for his family
28Aug By Houston StringerNo Comments
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Off-Duty Harris County Officer shot and killed on the way home after picking up food for his family

Update: The Officer has been identified as Deputy Constable Omar Ursin, a Harris County Precinct 3 Constable. An officer driving down Madera Run Pkwy in was shot and killed by an unknown suspect Sunday evening in the Groves neighborhood of Atascocita, Texas, a suburb of Houston, located in northeast Harris County. https://www.youtube.com/embed/hKois4hmDSc According to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, the officer, a 37-year-old man was driving down Madera Run Pkwy when he was shot at by a dark-colored, newer model sedan with tinted windows in front of West Lake Middle school near Timber Forest Rd. At some point, the suspect vehicle fired at the officer's vehicle, a dark-colored Ford Focus for an unknown reason. The suspect vehicle then fled eastbound on Madera Run, then nor...
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Caught on dashcam: Houston Uber driver is shaken after man pulls out an assault rifle and aims it at her in the Heights
28Aug By Houston StringerNo Comments
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Caught on dashcam: Houston Uber driver is shaken after man pulls out an assault rifle and aims it at her in the Heights

A Houston Uber driver is shaken after she had a man get out of his vehicle and pointed an assault rifle toward her for apparently no reason. She gave us permission to share her video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/oMFcx2av9z0 According to the driver who wishes to remain anonymous, she was driving down Washington Street (a popular bar area in Houston) when she received a ping (ride request) to pick up a rider from "Sugar Room". This happened at about 2:35 a.m. on August 28, 2022. As she was making her way down Washington, she said the video shows him possibly coming from Clutch Bar, or the street next to it, as she is passing by the CVS located near T.C. Jester and Washington, basically the suspect's car was in front of her the entire time. According to the Uber driver, she did n...
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Video: Four dead after suspect sets fire to a house, shoots at firefighters, and is killed by a Houston Police Officer
28Aug By Houston StringerNo Comments
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Video: Four dead after suspect sets fire to a house, shoots at firefighters, and is killed by a Houston Police Officer

Four people are dead after a suspect set a fire to a house in southwest Houston early Sunday morning at 5742 Holly Street near the 8000 block of Dunlap Street. https://www.youtube.com/embed/UfJ8uMhq_S0 Police Chief Troy Finner of the Houston Police Department stated in a press briefing that four individuals are dead after a suspect set a fire to a "multiple-room renting facility". According to Chief Finner, the calls started to come in at 1:07 a.m. to both the Houston Fire Department (HFD) and the Houston Police Department (HPD). The suspect set fire to several residents and waited for them to come outside before firing upon them. When HFD arrived, he started to open fire, but it is unclear at this time if he was aiming directly at firefighters, but they had to take cover as a p...
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At least one person is dead after a vehicle crashes through a guard rail of a connector ramp and lands on the freeway below
27Aug By Houston StringerNo Comments
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At least one person is dead after a vehicle crashes through a guard rail of a connector ramp and lands on the freeway below

According to the Houston Police Department, at least one person is dead after a vehicle that was on the I-45 southbound connector ramp to Beltway 8 East in north Houston went through the guard rail and landed on Beltway 8 below. https://twitter.com/houstonpolice/status/1563398902505558016 According to Lt. P. Buttitta of the Houston Police Department, the vehicle, a black Mercedes was seen traveling southbound on I-45 at a high rate of speed before taking the I-45 south exit to Beltway 8 East in north Houston. The vehicle was seen hitting the Beltway 8 ramp wall several times before "he flew over and landed below" on the Beltway 8 exit ramp for Imperial Valley according to Lt. Buttitta. The driver of the vehicle was then pronounced deceased by the Houston Fire Department. ...
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Mayor Turner: “Our children deserve better”, after federal judge blocks law prohibiting handguns for young adults
25Aug By Houston StringerNo Comments
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Mayor Turner: “Our children deserve better”, after federal judge blocks law prohibiting handguns for young adults

In a court ruling today, a federal judge in Texas signed an order that effectively blocks a law that was enacted after the Uvalde massacre. The law made it a crime for young adults between 18 and 20 years old from carrying handguns for self-defense outside of their homes. In his order, United States District Judge, Mark Pittman ruled that it prohibiting young adults that are between the ages of 18 and 20 years old goes against the Second Amendment. Mayor Sylvester Turner released the following statement Thursday night: "The State of Texas has not changed a single law since Uvalde. Now, just as young students are returning to school, high school seniors who are just turning 18 can openly carry a handgun? Making gun access – with no background checks or training - is making it harde...
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Hertz is being sued again after customers were wrongly accused of stealing cars
25Aug By Houston StringerNo Comments
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Hertz is being sued again after customers were wrongly accused of stealing cars

A lawsuit has been filed in Florida after several customers were reported to police for stealing cars from Hertz. This caused the police to not only pull them over, but in some cases, the customers were held at gunpoint, arrested, and charged with grand theft auto. Similar cases have been filed across the country over the last few years. According to the lawsuit, filed in Miami's 11th Judicial Circuit, on August 15, 2022, this is not a new problem and has been happening for years and accuses the car rental company of putting profits first, and their customer's liberty and freedom last by ignoring policies they enacted to deal with "overdue" and "lost inventory" case. Furthermore, the lawsuit quotes Hertz from an article written in The Philadelphia Inquirer on August 3, 2020, by Sam W...
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A shooting near Humble Middle School causes a lockdown, all students are safe and accounted for
25Aug By Houston StringerNo Comments
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A shooting near Humble Middle School causes a lockdown, all students are safe and accounted for

Humble ISD sent out an e-mail to parents this morning advising them that both Humble Middle School and Whispering Pines Elementary were placed in "Secure the Perimeter Status" Thursday morning. This was triggered by a report of a bullet entering a nearby resident's home. From Humble ISD: "At approximately 9:55 a.m., HMS and WPE campuses were placed on Secure the Perimeter status out of an abundance of caution. A homeowner who lives in close proximity to Humble Middle School reported sounds of gunfire and that a round entered his home, grazing the refrigerator. Humble ISD Police and Precinct 4 officers are on the scene.  Secure the perimeter is a course of action necessary when incidents arise during the school day that are outside of the school building. Students and staff can ...
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Update: Serial Road Rager in the Heights has been arrested
23Aug By Houston Stringer2 Comments
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Update: Serial Road Rager in the Heights has been arrested

Kenneth A. Ward, of Houston, TX has been arrested in connection with a road rage incident that happened on August 3, 2022 for a felony charge of aggravated assault. Kenneth Ward (Credit: Haris County Precinct 1) The case, which has been filed in Harris County District Court (Case No. 178392901010), gives us a bit more info about what led up to the chase. According to court documents, the incident started at about 8:25 p.m. when the driver of the Mini-Cooper turned onto Morrison Street from White Oak Drive in the heights. The driver stated that this is when he noticed a black truck, which was traveling at a high rate of speed. The driver of the truck, Kenneth Ward became aggressive at this point and started honking at the Mini-Cooper and started to tailgate the Mini-Cooper. Ward...
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University of Chicago/AP-NORC Poll: 4 out of 10 Americans fear they will be a victim of gun violence in the next five years
23Aug By Houston StringerNo Comments
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University of Chicago/AP-NORC Poll: 4 out of 10 Americans fear they will be a victim of gun violence in the next five years

According to a recent poll conducted by the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 4 out of 10 Americans believe they will become a victim of gun violence in the next five years. The poll, which was conducted at the end of July, also found that Black Americans and Hispanic Americans are twice as likely to have experienced gun violence themselves or know someone that has already experienced gun violence. Most Americans surveyed in the poll (71%) all agree that gun laws should be somewhat stricter, with 59%, or nearly 6 out of 10 supporting a ban on semi-automatic weapons. There is also overwhelming public support for a federal gun law that will ban the mentally ill from obtaining guns legally. 52% of tho...
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Houston Police Officers Escort daughter of fallen Officer, Jason Knox to kindergarten
22Aug By Houston StringerNo Comments
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Houston Police Officers Escort daughter of fallen Officer, Jason Knox to kindergarten

The daughter of fallen Houston Police Officer, Jason Knox was given a police escort to her first day of Kindergarten, along with her older brother. https://twitter.com/danielarizpe/status/1561744732145025027?s=21&t=0p_28U0gqEN3UL3z1qqzUQ Her father, Officer Jason Knox, was killed in the line of duty in a HPD helicopter crash back in May of 2020. Credit: Daniel Arizpe/Twitter
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