Robbery Suspect Killed While Trying To Run Over Deputies: Police

HOUSTON – A robbery suspect who used a stolen car as a battering ram against police officers was shot and killed Wednesday evening, police said. The incident happened just before 6 p.m. at Interstate 10 east and Gelhorn Drive.

Police said the man was driving a car he had stolen during a robbery in Humble a day earlier. Police spotted the black Mazda early Wednesday and began tracking and following the car, police said. Sheryl Victorian, assistant chief with the Houston Police Department, said the deputies closed in on the car at about 5:45 p.m. and stopped the car.

Victorian said when the deputies came toward the car, the driver put the car in reverse and tried to ram the car into the deputies and hit several police cars.

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“The officer was in the door jam and trying to affect an arrest and pull the suspect out of the vehicle,” Victorian said. “The suspect began to violently back up and as a result, the officers discharged their firearms.”

The three deputies shot at the driver who was wounded and died while deputies performed CPR.

A woman who was inside the car with the suspect was not injured. Investigators are working to determine how she was involved with the suspect, police said.

"She is now a witness. We don't believe she was involved in the aggravated carjacking," Victorian said.

The identity of the male is pending verification by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, police said.

The shooting is under investigation by the Houston Police Department and the Harris County District Attorney's Office.

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