On Friday afternoon, around 2:45 p.m., in Atascocita, near Houston, a man attempted to steal the car of an off-duty Harris County deputy and was shot and killed by the deputy.
Fox News reported that the deputy's child was in the vehicle at the time of the incident.
ABC 13 marked that “the deputy had just placed his small child in a car seat in the bed of a pickup truck when the suspect approached and attempted to enter the vehicle from the passenger side.”
The deputy temporarily held the suspect at gunpoint and then opened fire out of fear for the life of his child.
Responding law enforcement found the alleged carjacker lying on the lawn near the deputy's vehicle. The alleged carjacker was taken to hospital and pronounced dead.
The deceased suspect was identified as 27-year-old Darrius Williams.
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