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Retired HPD employee shoots alleged robbers at his home
A retired Houston Police Department employee shot and injured two men he says were trying to rob his north Houston home Monday afternoon, authorities said.
One man was shot in the head. He was at Ben Taub General Hospital in critical condition Monday night, Police Department spokesman Victor Senties said.
The retired employee was a police communication specialist who fixed handheld radios for the department, Senties said. He was at his home in the 500 block of Van Molan, near Northline Mall, when at about 2:45 p.m. he saw on a surveillance system that a red van had backed into his driveway, Senties said.
He saw two men, carrying bolt cutters, get out the van. They then tried to take a generator, Senties said.
The former employee, a licensed peace officer, grabbed his handgun, came onto the porch and told the men to stop, Senties said. The two men ran to the van.
"They then put their hands inside the van as if they were going to get weapons from there," Senties said.
Fearing his life was in danger, the former employee fired at the men, striking one in the head and the other in the arm, Senties said.
The man shot in the arm left in the van. A motorcycle officer later arrested him and took him to a hospital.
No charges had been filed on Monday.
A retired Houston Police Department employee shot and injured two men he says were trying to rob his north Houston home Monday afternoon, authorities said.
One man was shot in the head. He was at Ben Taub General Hospital in critical condition Monday night, Police Department spokesman Victor Senties said.
The retired employee was a police communication specialist who fixed handheld radios for the department, Senties said. He was at his home in the 500 block of Van Molan, near Northline Mall, when at about 2:45 p.m. he saw on a surveillance system that a red van had backed into his driveway, Senties said.
He saw two men, carrying bolt cutters, get out the van. They then tried to take a generator, Senties said.
The former employee, a licensed peace officer, grabbed his handgun, came onto the porch and told the men to stop, Senties said. The two men ran to the van.
"They then put their hands inside the van as if they were going to get weapons from there," Senties said.
Fearing his life was in danger, the former employee fired at the men, striking one in the head and the other in the arm, Senties said.
The man shot in the arm left in the van. A motorcycle officer later arrested him and took him to a hospital.
No charges had been filed on Monday.