Houston police released video of October officer shooting in northwest Houston that left...
Police allege the man, Alfredo Gonzalez-Garza, walked toward an officer with a knife and the officer, identified as I. Garcia, asked him to stop, before shooting Gonzalez-Garza several times.
A woman had called the Houston Police Department earlier that morning to report she had been driving in the 7700 block of Long Point Road when a man struck her vehicle with a flag pole, cracking her windshield. Garcia didn’t activate his body camera until he was performing first aid on Gonzalez-Garza, according to the department. But a series of cameras along the stretch of roadway capture the moments before and after the shooting.The officer then confronted the man, who pulled out a knife and walked toward police, authorities allege. Garcia pulled his gun and walked backward while asking the man to drop the knife.
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