1/31/00 - Jeffery Lynn Pruitt, 37, mentally ill and threatening suicide, shot from behind in the ankle and buttocks by Houston PD officer Jimmy H. Higgins, 44. Police claim he lunged at Higgins with a knife - no description of the knife is given.

Also see 1998 - Higgins is involved in another shooting when Paul Uwandu led several police cars in a high-speed chase. Higgins fired 6 shots at Uwandu, hitting him in the arms and leg.