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Lights flash on a police patrol vehicle.
One person is dead and a Harris County deputy was injured following an altercation Wednesday evening involving a man accused of exposing himself to passengers on a Houston METRORail train, according to the Houston Police Department.
The officer-involved shooting happened around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at a METRORail platform on the 7800 block of Fulton Street in North Houston, according to HPD. Police officers arrived and found a man had been shot at least one time after an an altercation with two Harris County Sheriff’s deputies, who were already on scene working another job, according to HPD Lt. Larry Crowson.
“They [Harris County deputies] were contacted by a witness that advised them there was a male exposing himself on one of the trains,” Crowson said during a press conference Wednesday. “They went to interview that male and arrest him … There was a fight. During that fight, one of the deputies was cut in the arm.”
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According to the sheriff’s office, the preliminary investigation indicated that both deputies fired their weapons.
The deputy who was injured is 33 years old and has been working for the sheriff’s office for nine years. He was transported to the hospital and is in stable condition, according to the sheriff’s office.
The other deputy is 32 years old and has been with the department for seven years.
The sheriff’s office said HPD would be leading the investigation and that the Harris County District Attorney’s Office and the Harris County Sheriff’s Office Department of Internal Affairs were on scene following the shooting.
The identity of the man shot and killed by deputies has not yet been released.
Representatives from the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) were not immediately available for comment.