Overview
- Officers were called to an apartment on West Bellfort Avenue for a report of a man in crisis with a knife.
- The man’s wife told police he had made suicidal threats and threatened to harm officers.
- Police say the man stood in the doorway holding a butcher knife and ignored repeated commands to drop it.
- Three South Gessner Patrol officers fired and the man was pronounced dead by Houston Fire Department medics.
- No officers were injured, and HPD and the Harris County District Attorney’s Office are reviewing the shooting as part of standard procedure.