An off-duty police officer shot and killed a knife-wielding suspect who stabbed another man to death early this morning at a gas station near a bar in northwest Houston.
The shooting occurred at the station at 4401 W. 18th near the 610 West Loop about 2:15 a.m. Monday, according to the Houston Police Department.
Police said the suspect, whose name has not been released, died at the scene. The man who had been stabbed was taken to Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. His name has not been released.
The officer, who is identified as C.E. Hightower, was not hurt. No other injuries were reported.
Police said Hightower and another off-duty officer were in uniform and working an approved extra job directing traffic in the parking lot of the El Chaparral club when they saw a group of men get into a confrontation outside a nearby gasoline station.
The officers rushed to the station and intervened. They pulled one of the men away from the altercation, but the man went to his vehicle, grabbed a knife and began stabbing another man he had been fighting.
Hightower saw the assault and ordered the attacker several times to drop the knife. The man ignored the commands and continued to stab the victim.
That’s when Hightower, in fear of the victim’s safety and the safety of others nearby, fired several shots, hitting the knife-wielding man. The man got up after he was shot, climbed into his vehicle and drove a short distance, plowing through several bushes and slamming into a few cars in the El Chaparaal parking lot before he stopped.
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