Overview

• Officers were dispatched around 8 a.m. to the 5800 block of Hartwick Road after reports that someone had fired multiple rounds at a residence.
• Three officers encountered the resident in his driveway and ordered him to drop an AR-15 rifle.
• Two officers fired after he did not comply, striking the man.
• Officers administered first aid as Houston Fire EMS arrived, and the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
• HPD identified the man as a 29-year-old Hispanic resident and said the two officers who fired have roughly three to five years of service, with the case under active investigation.