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Welding Shop fire in NW Houston accidental.

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Fire investigators may rule Sunday's large fire in northwest Harris County as an accident.

The fire started Sunday night at the Technical Alloy and Industrial Gas Company along Highway 249 near the Beltway. The highway was shut down for hours as firefighters battled the blaze.

The Harris County Fire Marshal's Office tell us the fire appears to be electrical and may be ruled accidental.

Eyewitnesses did say they heard explosions just before they saw the fire. No one was hurt in the fire.

Man arrested in NW Houston shooting

A man wanted in a fatal shooting in northwest Houston last month has been arrested.

Artavious Deon Hollins 27, was arrested Friday, Houston police said on Tuesday. Hollins is charged with murder, accused of killing 40-year-old Derrick Tyrone Williams.

Police said the two were arguing about 3:35 p.m. on Nov. 5 at an apartment complex courtyard at 4250 West 34th, west of T.C. Jester, when Hollins went to his apartment and got a gun. He returned to the courtyard and continued to argue with Williams. Hollins then shot him in the chest, police said, and fled.

Williams died at the scene.

Two arrested after police chase in NW Houston

KHOU

Updated today at 11:12 AM
HOUSTON—Two men were arrested early Monday after leading police on a short chase in northwest Houston.

An HPD unit spotted a car speeding inbound on Highway 290 at Mangum around 3:45 a.m. and attempted to pull it over, but the driver refused to stop.
The driver hopped onto the West loop, U-turned at Memorial and continued driving on and off the freeway for about 30 minutes.

The chase finally ended on Eldridge at FM 1960 after the car ran over spikes in the middle of the road and blew out the two front tires.
The driver and passenger were then taken into custody.

5 injured in school bus wreck in NW Houston

by khou.com staff
khou.com
Posted on December 12, 2011 at 4:46 PM
Updated yesterday at 4:48 PM

HOUSTON—A car ran a red light and hit an Aldine Independent School district bus in northwest Houston, police said.


The wreck happened at about 3:30 p.m. on Highway 249 at West Mount Houston.
Forty-eight students from Eisenhower High School were on the bus and four were transported to the hospital as a precaution.

The driver of the car was also taken to the hospital. There was no word on that person’s condition.

Police sting nabs 4 suspects in tire/rims theft spree

by KHOU.com staff
khou.com
Posted on November 28, 2011 at 7:40 AM
Updated today at 9:14 AM

HOUSTON—Four suspects, who may have been on a year and a half-long rim and tire theft spree, were captured during a sting operation in northwest Houston early Monday, according to authorities.

The suspects were caught red-handed in the Westbrook Lakes Subdivision, located off Eldridge at Chimney Sweep, around 3:30 a.m.

Brenham police and Houston police were conducting a rim theft sting and caught four suspects in the act of stealing several sets of tires in the subdivision.
As officers approached, the suspects all fled in three separate vehicles, scattering in different directions.

Police said one suspect in one of the vehicles was apprehended on Highway 290 at FM 529; another suspect in the second vehicle surrendered on Marlborough at Larknolls; and two suspects bailed out of the third vehicle at a La Quinta Inn on West 34th Street at Highway 290. One was caught almost immediately, and the second was caught after a short search at a nearby complex.

Police said the suspects may be connected to hundreds of theft within the last 18 months

Hollywood style drug battle in NW Houston!

HOUSTON - In the northwest Houston community of Champion’s Crossing, there was no need to catch the cop shows on cable.

The real deal went down on the edge of their neighborhood Monday afternoon.
"We are all a little shaken, we are a little scared," resident Hamilton Russell said.
It happened just before 2 p.m. when an 18-wheel tanker truck came under a barrage of fire from moving vehicles clearly on the wrong side of the law.
That truck was thought to be carrying drugs and was under surveillance by a narcotics task force.

FOX 26 asked Harris County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Christina Garza whether investigators believe the incident was an attempted hijacking.
"We don't know,” Garza said. “I can't tell you that right now.”
Whatever it was, local law plowed in with guns blazing.

"In that exchange of gunfire, one of our undercover officers at the Harris County Sheriff's office was struck in the leg,” Garza said. “He was transported to an area hospital where he is expected to make a full recovery. We also have one suspect who is dead on the scene inside that 18 wheeler.”

The cops captured multiple suspects, including a gunman who took a bumper instead of a bullet.

"We have another suspect who was struck by an officer's vehicle as he tried to open fire against that officer," Garza said.

Who shot who and who might have gotten away? Those questions remain unanswered.
Meantime, the good folks of Champion's Crossing are drawing their own, less-than-comforting conclusions.

"Things happen,” resident Teresa Baskin said. “No matter where you go, no matter where you try to live, things just happen.”
"I need to go buy a gun," said Hamilton Russell, her neighbor.


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Deputy Shot, 18-Wheeler Crashes in NW Houston: MyFoxHOUSTON.com