By Laura Whitley, ABC13 Eyewitness News, Houston
An off-duty Houston police officer is shot twice and remains hospitalized Monday morning.
The shooting happened earlier in the Harwin district of southwest Houston.
Police are still on the scene trying to figure out what led up to the shooting of one of their own. The rookie police officer was shot while he was inside of his red Mustang.
According to witnesses, it looked like the officer and another man in a separate vehicle were arguing. Then the suspect allegedly got out of his vehicle and shot into the plain-clothes officer’s car.
After getting shot the officer walked into a convenience store that was across the street where the shooting took place and asked them for help.
Meanwhile, other witnesses say the suspect got into his small red car and then sped away north on Gessner.
The officer was treated for his gunshot wounds at Southwest Memorial Hermann Hospital. He was shot both in the left shoulder and the arm. Those wounds are not expected to be life threatening.