HOUSTON – Houston police are investigating after they said a robbery and carjacking suspect was shot by an HPD officer in southeast Houston Monday.
The shooting was reported about 1:25 a.m. in the 7600 block of Airport Boulevard.
According to HPD Executive Assistant Chief Troy Finner, an officer saw a vehicle traveling nearly 100 mph on Telephone Road about 12:45 a.m. Officers said the vehicle then went eastbound on Airport Boulevard and dispatchers warned officers that a black Mercedes Benz was taken at a gas station on Beltway 8 near Telephone Road.
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Police said when one of two patrol officers saw the vehicle and tried to approach the suspect, identified as 28-year-old Danielle Pope, got out of the vehicle and fired several shots at officers. Finner said one of the officers began firing back at the suspect, striking him once. Officers said they administered first aid on the suspect before he was taken to Ben Taub Hospital in serious condition.
The female officer that shot Pope was not injured during the incident, investigators said.
Investigators said a man, his wife and child were the victims of the carjacking. The man was in the store while his child and wife were forced out of the vehicle by two people, police said.