HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – A recent high school graduate is set to face charges after he led deputies on a pursuit while intoxicated in east Harris County, deputies with Harris County Sheriff’s Office said.
According to HCSO in a tweet, deputies responded to a suspicious person call at around 4:56 a.m. in the 14300 block of Lantern Lane Thursday morning.
When deputies arrived in the area, they attempted to stop the suspect, who drove a white Nissan Altima. The suspect refused to stop, and a short pursuit began.
2/2 discharged his weapon. The suspect was not hit and was taken into custody w/o incident. No injuries to deputies or suspect.
— HCSOTexas (@HCSOTexas) June 9, 2022
A short time later, the suspect pulled over to his mother’s driveway on Black Rock and Double Pine. He was seen reaching for what deputies believed was a possible weapon on his lap.
That was when the deputy fired one time. HCSO says no one was hit, and the suspect was taken into custody without incident.
Upon further investigation, deputies said the suspect had recently graduated high school and was using a loaner car that belonged to Mark Embrey of Lyall (Law) Bros. Collision.
“We loaned it out to a customer who brought the car in here for repair, and next thing you know it ends up with bullet holes, in the side of the road somewhere,” said Embrey.
Embrey told KPRC 2 that he’ll now have to double the work to repair his own car.
“You got to replace the whole door, so you replace the door, so you got to blend the fender and blend the rear door, so it’ll probably take about a week, I’m just glad nobody got hurt,” he said.