BEAUMONT \u2014 The Beaumont Police Department is investigating an officer-involved shooting stemming from an encounter with an armed man in the yard of a home, during which a woman and three-year-old child were also struck by gunfire, according to information from Sgt. Haley Morrow.<\/p>\n
No officers were hurt.<\/p>\n
It began at 11:02 p.m. Saturday when Beaumont Police responded to the area of Concord and Redwood in the north end of town after receiving numerous reports of shots fired, according to Sgt. Morrow.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, they encountered and engaged an armed man in the yard of a home in the 4200 block of Concord Road near Redwood Drive, according to Sgt. Morrow. The preliminary investigation has revealed that a three-year-old child and an adult woman were also struck by gunfire during the incident.<\/p>\n
The man, woman, and child were transported to a local hospital for medical treatment. The child was subsequently flown by medical helicopter to a Houston-area hospital for further treatment and is in stable condition. The woman is stable and the man is in critical condition.<\/p>\n
Detectives with the Beaumont Police Department\u2019s Persons Unit, along with BPD Internal Affairs, the Jefferson County District Attorney\u2019s Office, and the Texas Rangers, are investigating the shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEAUMONT \u2014 The Beaumont Police Department is investigating an officer-involved shooting stemming from an encounter with an armed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-878456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}