The streets were still blocked off late Sunday afternoon with many police cars and fire trucks on the scene. The second officer was shot in the hand.Īt the Dittoe house, Ha Dittoe said police came to the door about two hours later and asked if anyone in the house was being held captive, and if they could walk around the backyard. Houston Police Union President Ray Hunt says an officer who was hit several times in the chest was wearing both a metal breastplate and a bulletproof vest. The county medical examiner may identify the gunman on Monday, Cannon said. "If he hadn't taken that action that quickly, this likely would have been a lot worse than it was," Cannon said. She took their two children, ages 6 and 7, into the bathroom, told them to eat breakfast in there, and called 911.Ībout an hour after the shootings began, a SWAT officer killed the gunman, said Police spokesman John Cannon.
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His wife, Ha, 41, said it went on too long for that and described the series of staccato sounds. "I heard the first shot and I thought it was a transformer" exploding, he said. A memorial to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown is finally nearing construction, after nearly eight years of discussion and planning. Stephen Dittoe, 55, lives in the house right behind the shooting scene, separated by a fence and tall shrubbery at the end of cul-de-sac. About 1:30 p.m., a male, whose age was unknown, was shot in the head in the 2400 block of West 63rd. At least three police vehicles were damaged by gunfire, one of them struck 21 times, and a police helicopter was shot at with a "high-powered" weapon and was hit five times, authorities said. One person was killed in a shooting Saturday afternoon in Chicago Lawn on the South West Side. Police say they believe a fire at a gas station next door began when gunfire hit a pump. Neighbors described hearing many gunshots, and some of the victims taken to the hospital were shot while driving their vehicles. Others in the shop ran out to take cover nearby and call for help. Within a minute or two, authorities said, the gunman came in and started shooting. The customer described as a man in his 50s had just driven in to the auto shop. Police, who said they have no indication yet of a motive, said they got their first call about the shootings around 10:15 a.m. Two officers who were shot were released from the hospital later Sunday. Three others - two of them male and one female - were hospitalized with injuries police said were not believed to be life-threatening. Police said later Sunday they were investigating further whether he played any role.
Several people were shot and injured, including a man authorities initially described as another suspect because he was present and armed. A man came into a Houston auto detail shop and began shooting, killing a man known to be a customer and putting a neighborhood on lockdown Sunday before being killed by a SWAT officer, police said.
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