HPD: Police officer shot, killed machete-wielding man

12:09 PM CDT on Tuesday, April 21, 2009

By Lee McGuire / 11 News

HOUSTON -- An HPD officer shot and killed a man at an apartment complex in the 8700 block of Fondren Monday evening.

The incident happened at the Ridgestone Apartment complex around 7 p.m.

Police said they were called to the complex on a domestic disturbance report.

Officials said a woman told them her husband had been beating his two children with a belt and had been drinking.

When the two officers arrived at the scene, they said the husband was waiting for them in the parking lot. Police said he was holding two knives, and one of them was a machete.

Police said the officers warned the man in both English and Spanish to get on the ground. Instead of doing what they asked, they said he lunged at them with the knives.

Officer Xavier Flores shot and killed the man. Flores has been with the Houston Police Department for a year and a half.