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Texas deputy constable 'ambushed,' shot by robbery suspect: 'Please pray'
A deputy constable in Texas was “ambushed” and allegedly shot by a robbery suspect following a police pursuit in Harris County on Friday, Mark Herman, Harris County Constable for Precinct 4 confirmed.
The deputy constable was identified by Herman as Deteryon Fontonet.
“PLEASE PRAY FOR CONSTABLE DEPUTY DETERYON FONTONET,” Herman wrote on social media. “Please keep Deputy Deteryon Fontonet in your prayers. He was transported to a local hospital after he was ambushed and shot by a robbery suspect today.”
The unidentified suspect was later taken into custody, Herman said.
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Harris County, Texas, Deputy Constable Deteryon Fontonet was “ambushed” and shot by a robbery suspect following a police pursuit on Friday, according to Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman. (Harris County Constable Precinct 4)
“Our deputy is going to be OK, he’s just going to need some surgery on his face,” Herman later said during a press conference. “The good lord was looking out for our deputy and I guess you could say the good Lord was looking out for this suspect that we didn’t kill him because we would have been within our rights to do so.”
Herman said there were 16 holes in the deputy’s patrol car “and there’s even holes through the window of the car where the deputy was standing.”
The deputy was “ambushed” in a residential neighborhood in Harris County, Texas. (FOX 26)
He said he plans to seek attempted capital murder of a peace officer charges.
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“This is just the world we live in,” he said.
The deputy was shot in the 5300 block of Slashwood Lane in Spring, Texas. (Google Maps)
The high-speed chase began after the suspect allegedly robbed two different Academy stores in Harris County with an AR-15, then failed to stop for Fontonet who recognized the suspect’s vehicle.
Fontonet was then fired on in the 5300 block of Slashwood Lane in Spring by the fleeing suspect, who ran into a home.
Harris County, Texas, Constable Mark Herman said the deputy is expected to pull through. (FOX 26)
The suspect was taken into custody after deputies surrounded the home where they were hiding.
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