12/20/2025
If you’re a patrol officer in a busy city, you know there’s a 99% chance the “silent alarm” call is an accidental activation or malfunction. Chances are when you get there and can’t find anybody inside, you’ve been as annoyed as this guy, too. 🤣
No tactical training in the world prepares you - really - for the 1% chance you’ll be met by a store owner with a gun to her head. Your success in this 1% chance situation will depend on how capable you are with your eyes, hands, and gun handling. This Houston PD Officer was ready. Incredible work. 👊🏽
Take a moment to ask yourself how you would have responded to your 378th alarm calls, and if you’re on-demand, COLD ability to shoot fast and accurately is really up to this kind of task. 🤔
“The Houston Police Department is investigating an officer-involved shooting after a man who was allegedly robbing a cash loan office and holding an employee at gunpoint was shot by a police officer Monday morning.
“The suspect, who was not identified and only described as a Black man between 25 and 30 years old, was hospitalized with gunshot wounds and was in stable condition, according to police.
“Officers responded to a holdup panic alarm, an alarm used by businesses to alert law enforcement if they’re being robbed, at approximately 8:30 this morning at the ACE Cash Express located at 203 W. Greens Road, off the North Belt.
“When officers arrived, they allegedly saw the suspect holding a woman at gunpoint. A spokesperson characterized the suspect as using the woman as a “shield,” and said surveillance video indicated he had a pistol to her back and was walking in behind her.
“The suspect exited the business with the female employee,” Assistant HPD Chief Luis Menendez-Sierra said during a press conference on Monday. “Upon exiting the business, our officer responded to the threat of the suspect and fired his weapon multiple times, striking the suspect multiple times.”
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