Hello, I'm Lynne cannon.
We are starting with breaking news folks.
There is a lot going on in a
couple of locations this afternoon.
3 Houston police officers were shot in
3rd Ward and right now officers are
also at another location in 5th Ward.
I'm Mia Grande, a busy afternoon.
It has been the scene in 5th.
Ward is an act of 1 with heavy
police presence and heavily armed
officers as witnesses described to us.
That's because we understand
the shooter is not.
In custody, I want to give you a
better idea about these locations,
where they are pulling up this map for you.
Take a look first.
This is at McGowan Street near Saint Emanuel.
This is where we understand
the officers were shot.
Now this is just a couple of blocks
away from Emancipation Park.
If you're familiar with that landmark,
they're in the Third Ward
and just a few miles away.
All of this is from the scene
happening in 5th Ward that active
scene with a massive showing of law.
Enforcement
and we're going to start.
We've got team coverage for you tonight
with reporters at Lions and Lockwood.
We have David Gonzalas at the
hospital where the officers are,
but we start with Zach Tower Terry,
who's in 3rd ward,
the site of the shooting. Zach,
what's the latest there?
Yeah, LED near the 2100 block of McGowan,
Charles and McGowan.
To be specific, this is where everything
was said to have originally taken place.
We got that tweet from around 3:30
that three officers had been shot.
A couple of things to note.
There's a huge police presence here.
You can see it.
A flood of police secure a police detail.
We saw an ATF car over
there a little bit earlier.
Just a ton of police presence here.
One thing I want to tell you is that.
They were focused on that white building,
where it appears.
There's kind of like an outdoor parking
lot surrounded by a chain link fence.
We saw a lot of police going in and
out of there a little bit earlier.
Now they seem to be gathered
in the middle of this street,
and they do seem to be trying to
talk to some of the neighbors who've
been filing out of these homes.
These buildings and we are looking
at this scene from the overpass
of the highway here.
As I mentioned just a ton
of police presence here.
We do continue to try and talk
to some of these neighbors that
may have seen what went on and we
will of course continue to monitor
this situation and bring you any
updates as soon as we get them.
Back, thank you.
Now let's go to David Gonzalas.
He's at Memorial Hermann Hospital
on the condition of the officers.
What are you learning David?
Glen the good news from Houston
police is that all three officers
appear to be in stable condition.
I'm live right across the
street from Memorial Hermann.
Outside of the emergency room,
and this is where those three officers were
rushed after being shot in the Third Ward.
And there's a huge police
presence out out here.
We just see a continuous flow of
officers making their way here,
both in uniform and out of
uniform to try to get an update.
As to the condition of these officers, but.
To be a social media,
here's some police did post on Twitter
not too long ago that all three officers
were in stable condition right now.
We can see that we are getting ready to get.
Hopefully a live update
from Chief Troy Finner,
who is here at the hospital.
We did see their public Information
Office setting up so that lets
us know that hopefully here,
very soon we'll be getting a live update
on the condition of these officers,
but we've spotted a lot of people
making their way out here.
So if you are going to be in
the Texas Medical Center,
just be very careful and very mindful.
Of the law enforcement presence out
here because they of course want to
make sure that their brothers or
sisters in blue are doing OK this
evening after being shot in the Third Ward.
I did speak with Memorial Hermann and
they let us know that Houston police
will give us a 20 minute heads up when
Chief Troy Finner is ready to speak.
I will pass that information along to
you guys and bring you live updates as to
what exactly happened in the Third Ward.
But of course,
the condition of these three
officers back to you.
Up
from here, I'm sure Chief Fenner has a
lot of information to gather before he
steps to that Mike to give us an update.
But very encouraging news there that the
three officers are in stable condition.
This is a live look right now over the
scene in 5th Ward at Lyons Ave and Lockwood.
That's where our Melissa Korea is Melissa.
What are you seeing there?
Hey there, Mia. For a second
I thought things were starting
to slow down a tad because as
I walk out of the picture,
you're going to see there at the
welcome sign of 5th Ward neighborhood
at Lions and Lockwood you see a heavy
presence of law enforcement push back.
However, in the last couple of minutes
another Houston Fire Department
ambulance has arrived and I just
tweeted out video of HPD SWAT team
van moving in along with Houston.
Police is Bomb squad moving in.
All of that law enforcement that
tactical vehicle moving in under the tree
line there along Lockwood near Lyons,
wedged on either side of this scene is
Atherton Elementary just to the South of
it is going to be Wheatley High School.
We've seen some students try to dodge
this heavily policed scene as they begin
to make their walk home from school to
pharmacies are on either side of this scene.
We've got CVS and Walgreens and I got
to tell you in a matter of minutes.
Houston police and Precinct 1
deputies cleared out both stores.
The parking lots are nearly empty.
In fact,
all of the vehicles you're seeing
now belong to Houston police.
I wanna see show you if you cannot
see it clearly in the picture,
as photojournalist Renee pushes in,
but whatever happened out here
happened with a sense of urgency
and I can take away from that.
How all of the vehicles were pushed
up on the curb here along lions?
It looks like it was a mad dash
to get to whatever was happening.
Here from the top down federal government
down is law enforcement, ATF agents,
state troopers, Houston police,
along with deputy Constables,
precinct one and again,
Houston firefighters on scene.
Not only firefighters,
but it looks like EMT's with a fire truck
and an ambulance at the ready again.
This is chaotic across Houston.
Multiple scenes where 4 miles from that
scene in the Third Ward traffic along.
I-10 east and that portion of
59 through downtown.
Think Minute Maid Park was bumper
to bumper as I was racing over here.
Houston police are likely trying
to gather their bearings with all
of that information.
And like I mentioned earlier this afternoon,
just hours before this,
Houston police Chief Troy Finner was
briefing Karas County on the death
of a deputy constable just on Sunday,
who was shot and killed during
a traffic stop.
And so law enforcement,
as we've heard from them throughout the week,
likely on edge.
They have called on Houston
to stop with this violence.
This gun violence,
those calls and pleas coming from pastors,
chaplains, county leaders as well.
And here we are dozens of law
enforcement officers at the corner
of Lions and Lockwood in the heart
of Houston 5th Ward waiting.
It looks like with bated breath as we
know a bomb squad unit and a SWAT team unit.
Made their way a little closer
into a view that we just can't
provide you a picture of right now.
Lennon Mia.
North East side at Lions
and Lockwood in 5th Ward.
We can only surmise folks based on the
information we're getting that scene
at lines in Lockwood potentially is
the site where the suspect is holed up.
That seems likely,
but we have not confirmed that.
As soon as we get more information
we will give it to you.
Two different scenes that we know of.
So there is a lot of information to
get to staying on top of everything.
The mayor of the city of Houston,
Sylvester Turner.
He tweeted the following reading
3 Houston police officers were
shot in the line of duty today
and I am relieved to hear their
injuries are nonlife threatening.
My thoughts and prayers go out to
them and I will be at the hospital
soon to check on their recovery.
Thank them for their service and
speak to their families once again.
A tweet there for Mayor Sylvester
Turner in regards to the three Houston
police officers who were shot earlier
this afternoon now in stable condition.
Alright, we're also getting more
information about the suspect.
That we were told police are looking for.
There is his picture and his name
Roland Caballero is the suspect
that police believe is the one that
opened fire on three officers in the
Third Ward about 3:30 this afternoon.
We've been telling you from
our David Gonzalez,
who's at Memorial Hermann Hospital,
that those three officers
are in stable condition.
We are being told that the officers
were hit in the arms and legs.
And they are in stable condition again.
The suspect Roland Caballero.
Now whether he is in 5th Ward
at the Lions Lockwood location,
we are not sure Mia.
But what we have learned just seconds ago
from combined law enforcement this evening,
that Caballero has been shot in the neck.
We understand he has been injured and he
is in a standoff with officers right now.
If you recall, we heard from
Danielle Young who lives there
in that 5th Ward community and.
She said that she saw a heavy
presence of officers.
They looked like they were arming
themselves moving in and this is
likely the man they were closing in
on suspect Roland Caballero shot in
the neck and now in a standoff with
officers at Lyons Ave in this area,
Lions Ave at Lockwood,
yeah, would you think about
the past week folks that we
have had with law enforcement?
You got one deputy that was hit
by a potential drunk driver.
Another one. Shot and now we've
got three HP officers shot.