HOUSTON — The Houston Police Department released footage from a shooting that left a Houston police sergeant and a suspect wounded, FOX 26 reported.
Officers responded to Mykawa Road around 11:30 p.m. on July 17 to reports of a suspicious person with a weapon, according to the report.
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The dash camera video released on Aug. 15 shows officers approaching the suspect in their vehicles, spotlighting him as he walked down the side of the roadway. While maintaining a distance between themselves and the suspect and exiting their vehicles, the officers ordered the suspect to raise his hands. Gunfire erupted after the second command, and Sgt. P.
George was struck. Despite being wounded, George returned fire alongside Sgt. K. Burch. Police said the suspect was hit in the exchange.
Burch is heard requesting medics for both George and the suspect before assisting with a tourniquet on George’s leg.
Additional bodycam video shows officers approaching the suspect with a shield, retrieving his firearm, and handcuffing him before cutting away his shirt to provide medical aid.
Both the wounded officer and suspect survived the shooting. George was reported “up and moving” after being hit, and the suspect was transported for treatment before being booked on two charges of aggravated assault on a police officer.
