HPD Officer Shoots Man In SW Houston

Police: Man Shot In Arm

POSTED: Monday, December 7, 2009

UPDATED: 7:26 am CST December 7, 2009

HOUSTON -- A Houston police officer shot a man in southwest Houston on Monday, KPRC Local 2 reported.

Officers responded to a report of a suspicious person with a weapon on Imogene Street near La Roche Lane at about 1 a.m.

Officers said they found a man holding a silver object ducking between cars.

The man refused to drop the object and an officer shot him in the arm, investigators said.

The man was taken into custody. Police said he was the person who called in the report of a suspicious person in the area.

The object turned out to be a hairbrush.

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