‘He died doing what he loved’: Widow of deputy constable killed at PlazAmericas speaks to KHOU 11 News

COLDSPRING, Texas — On the San Jacinto County courthouse, Dee Dee Adams was used to wanting outdoors her workplace and seeing her husband’s truck.

“I’m taking it daily, typically minute by minute,” she stated.

He was Neil Adams, a San Jacinto Precinct 1 deputy constable.

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“He was extraordinarily variety, to a fault variety,” Adams stated.

One month in the past, her husband was working an additional job at PlazAmericas, the outdated Sharpstown Mall, when he was killed in a capturing.

“He stated that’s the place the worst of the worst come to buy,” Adams stated.

She defined her husband picked up three shifts on the mall however had by no means labored there beforehand. After finishing the primary two shifts, she stated he knew he could not preserve going again.

“He’s 62 years outdated. He stated, ‘That place is simply too harmful, Wednesday will likely be my final day there,’” she stated.

Sadly, it was. This week bodycam footage launched by the Houston Police Division reveals officers operating in to confront the suspect, recognized by police as 35-year-old Czyz Deonte Harrison.

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“Not solely are they my heroes, they’re everyone’s heroes,” Adams stated.

Harrison was shot by responding officers after police stated he managed to seize Adams’ gun and kill him, however then one thing unusual occurred after he was shot.

“He bought up like nothing had occurred. I felt like he had a goal,” Adams stated. “I believe he had deliberate on killing the opposite ones.”

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In the end, officers tased him, he fell to the bottom once more and finally died, too.

“Individuals want to vary the way in which they consider officers,” Adams stated. “I really feel like all this negativity has emboldened individuals to behave out.”

Serving to her heal is the officers you see in bodycam footage, who responded that day. They now share a bond that’s exhausting to place into phrases.

“Offers me a goal to test on them and I’m certain it provides them a goal to test on me,” she stated.

A spouse who misplaced the love of her life, a father to 3, grandfather to 4, and a person who labored his means from dispatcher to detective, and eventually, an environmental deputy for the county.

“In the long run, he died doing what he cherished and he was making an attempt to guard someone. What higher method to go than doing what you like,” Adams stated.

Love that retains her going from a person who gave her the energy to hold his legacy on within the county they each served.