Robbery Suspect Killed After Shooting Texas Cop in Face (breitbart.com)
HOUSTON, Texas — A robbery suspect is dead after he shot a Missouri City, Texas, police officer in the face. The shooting incident took place following a police pursuit of a man suspected of a robbery that occured on the north side of Harris County (Houston).
Missouri City Police Department officials report that an officer spotted a vehicle linked to a 2 a.m. Saturday morning robbery call from north Harris Couth, Fox 26 Houston reported. The officers followed the vehicle and called for backup as it departed from a gas station at Fondren and Main Streets at about 2:30 a.m.
The suspect then stopped at a home in the 15,500 block of Corsair in southwest Houston. As officers approached, the as-yet-unidentified suspect opened fire, striking a female officer in the face and foot.
Officers loaded the wounded officer into a patrol car and rushed her to the nearby Memorial Hermann Hospital.
A foot pursuit ensued, the local Fox station reported. Officers found the suspect hiding a few blocks away in the backyard of a home on Winter Briars Dr. in Missouri City.
