The man charged in the fatal shooting of an off-duty Houston Police Department sergeant recorded multiple videos in the hours that followed the gun battle — and in the profanity-laced footage, he noted his close call with death.
Robert Soliz takes off his mask after being escorted into the courtroom for opening arguments in his trial Tuesday, July 26, 2022 in Houston. Soliz is accused of killing HPD Sgt. Sean Rios in November 2020.
A second round of footage Soliz recorded at an auto shop where he and a friend rushed to after the shooting was also played in the court. The brief clip showed his Mercedes-Benz vehicle with a bullet hole in the windshield. Soliz’s lawyer, Paul Looney, questioned the detective who initially investigated the shooting. He turned his attention to remarks that former police chief Art Acevedo, flanked by city officials and his command staff, made to news reporters in the aftermath. During that news conference, Acevedo said Rios, despite being off-duty, died in the line-of-duty after having engaged a suspect in a gun battle — suggesting that he was intervening in an act of criminal activity.
The detective, Sgt. Maria Greenhaw, had not spoken to Acevedo, she testified, by the time the news conference happened and was unaware of what he said or that the command staff had made that conclusion to share that narrative.
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