Officers reportedly heard gunshots after trying to arrest several suspects during a drug investigation.
A chase ended with gunfire in northeast Houston. Pasadena police say it started as a drug investigation, but two of the suspects took off.Pasadena authorities say shots were fired, and at least two suspects bailed during a police chase last week.
Sgt. Raul Granados with the Pasadena Police Department said officers attempted to do a traffic stop on two vehicles related to a drug investigation last Thursday, Oct. 26, at about 7:05 p.m. "One of the vehicles stopped immediately. The other vehicle fled, initiated a short pursuit, but we terminated it because of the way they were driving," Granados said. "They were going into oncoming traffic."
Two suspects in the stopped car were arrested. Granados said officers then came across the fleeing vehicle when it crashed near Langley near Hirsch Road in northeast Houston."We don't know exactly in which direction those shots were fired at, if they were fired towards the officer or somebody else," Granados said. No one was reportedly hurt.
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