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Off-duty Aldine ISD police captain tries to thwart downtown car thieves
The off-duty captain opened fireplace on the thieves as they sped towards him in a Preston Avenue parking storage, authorities mentioned.
HOUSTON — A report a couple of suspicious car ended early Saturday with a brazen SUV theft and one shot fired by an off-duty police captain, authorities mentioned.
It occurred round 3 a.m. within the 700 block of Preston Avenue.
Safety personnel alerted the captain, who works for the Aldine ISD Police Division, to a suspicious car within the constructing’s parking storage, based on Houston police.
The captain confronted the suspects who had been stealing an SUV, police mentioned. He fired as soon as on the car as they sped towards him.
The suspects received away within the stolen SUV and the car they arrived in, and it wasn’t clear if the fired shot hit anyone or the car.
There was no phrase on the suspects’ descriptions or what sort of SUV was stolen.
Houston police are nonetheless investigating.