HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Streets were blocked, and police lights flashed while police, SWAT, and K9 officers surrounded an apartment building in north Houston overnight, video showed.
Police confirmed to ABC13 on Saturday morning that they are trying to get a suspect inside an apartment at Warner Street and Tidwell Road to come out.
In a video shot at the scene, police can be heard through a loudspeaker, telling the suspect, “Come out with your hands in the air.”
While police have not confirmed the exact time the incident began, a neighbor said it started around 11:30 p.m. on Friday. She added that she called 911 around 3 a.m.
“We were next door, and we heard eight gunshots. We got up and heard police telling him, ‘drop the gun, drop the gun,'” Kaesha Lewis said. “When I tried to take my kids into the room, he started beating on our wall. I had to call and tell (police) we were inside, and they came and cut the window, and we had to get inside the SWAT truck.”
Lewis told ABC13 that before they were rescued, she had to hide with her kids inside a closet. After being evacuated, she said her family spent the rest of the night at the complex’s leasing office.
Lewis described her neighbor as a “nice” man who would feed homeless people and described this incident as “crazy.” She said that officers instructed her to wait until they could get him out, but her neighbor has refused to surrender.
“He came out twice, maybe. The first time he came out, he had a gun pointed at them, and he was smoking a cigarette at the same time,” Lewis recounted.
“I was terrified, my kids were terrified, they were crying…it was scary,” she added.
Lewis said she doesn’t think she’ll be living at the apartment complex much longer. Video showed Lewis was allowed back into her apartment around 7 a.m.
Around the same time, police told ABC13 that detectives were on the way to the scene to continue their work. They did not say whether the suspect had surrendered or was in custody.
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