Surveillance video obtained by ABC13 shows officers running down the hallways of a high-rise apartment moments after a DPS trooper allegedly shot his neighbor, mistaking him for an intruder.
An off-duty Texas DPS trooper shot a man who may have mistaken his apartment for his own at 500 Crawford in downtown Houston, according to police.A grand jury is expected to determine whether a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper should be indicted after police say hewhom he mistook for someone trying to break into his downtown Houston apartment.
" will have to pass the test of 'Were you in fear of your life? Why did you not call 9-1-1? Why did you not call for backup? Why did you not sit in your apartment while police responded?'" Tony Leal, retired chief of the Texas Rangers and president of PPI Security, said. When Houston police arrived at the scene, the DPS trooper told them he was inside his own apartment when the man tried to break in. However, a spokesperson for the building's ownership group, Finger Companies, said they believe the incident to be a case of one resident mistaking another's apartment as his own.
The man ran down the hallway, and officers later found him with a wound in his shoulder on his own floor. Officers applied two tourniquets, and he was taken to the hospital." quietest, kindest, down-to-earth guy," the man's neighbor, Tadd Ledet, said.
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