Yes, yeah. Good morning everyon.
My name is Ben, 10,
last name spelled T i.e.
N Executive Assistant Chief,
Houston Police Department.
What I have with me here tonight is I
have Chief these Kevin Dees ando
I have a Commander Menendez whos
the North Division Commander ove
the areas where the incident oc.
Along to my right is Commander Spears
who oversee the Homicide Divisi.
What we have tonight is it stard
as a what we believe are able
to gather at this time.
It's a weapon disturbance
which resulted in a, you know,
officer involved shooting.
Unfortunately the male is diseae
that did not survive his injuri.
So at approximately 11:18 PM tonight,
our officers were dispatched toa
call at the 100 block of Palmyr.
To put in perspective,
it's in the north side of town in the
vicinity of 45 N freeway and Crs
Timber and Long Fulton in that .
So upon office arrival I also
met the reportee who live at
the 100 block of Palmera.
According to the reportee at the location
they will have a party to celebe
a graduation of one of their ch.
So what happened was during
the the celebration a male.
Who is believed to live in the
neighborhood confronted them and
basically a yelling and hollerig
claiming the music is too loud.
Also the male also have possession and
display a what appeared to be a knife
at the time and the male basicay
threatened that they need to tun
the music down or he will be ba.
So at approximately like I mentd
earlier at approximately 11:18 M
I also got dispatched to a call.
And they arrived shortly after d
they begin speaking with the reportee
and try to find out you know,
what's going on with the scene.
While they were interviewing
the reportee and all the people
around in the party,
the male who displayed a
knife earlier showed up.
And as you know,
the reporter brought that
to officer attention.
And I also observed the male begin advancing
towards them and they begin backing up,
trying to create the distance and try to
reposition himself and multiple times.
Multiple times they ordered the male to
drop the knife which the male did not comply.
As such,
the officer begin to back up,
try to continue to create distance up
until the point where officer back into
a vehicle that he had nowhere to
and he subsequently discharged his firearm.
It is believed they discharged t
least more than once and struck
the male multiple times and shoy
thereafter officer begin to appy
first day try to save the male's life.
Unfortunately you know the
male did not survive.
And the male was pronounced
diseased after he was transportd
by HFD to the hospital.
Our investigator with our Specil
Investigation Unit with a homicide division,
they are on scene investigating our crime
scene unit with the forensic science.
It's also present processing the scene.
In the interim, our Internal Afs
Division is running a concurrent
administrative investigation.
At the same time,
our partners with the Harris Coy
District Attorney's Office is ao
running a concurrent investigat.
At the scene and the scene
is extremely active.
I do want to reemphasize the sce
is extremely preliminary and the
investigation is extremely preliminary
and all the information I have
just a snapshot of what we have.
We will continue to go through
all the evidence,
interview all the witnesses and
canvas the location for additiol
perhaps maybe surveillance vide.
I do encourage anyone with any
footage of any cell phone camer,
any witness,
a witness incident come forward
to to let us know.
At this time,
I would like to open up for any questions.
Yes, the body camera was on as a
customer practice and for proto.
Within 30 days we'll release
those body cams footage.
But hey, just keep the
family in the prayers.
As I mentioned earlier,
the male did not survive.
Y'all stay dry out there and dry carefully.
It's extremely wet out
here tonight. Be safe.