HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — A man was shot and killed by members of the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force in east Harris County Wednesday morning, according to Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.
The sheriff said the man who was shot was a wanted fugitive on multiple sexual assault of a child charges out of Jefferson County.
The Harris County Sheriff's Office said the task force was searching for the fugitive, whose name has not been released, before 7:30 a.m. on Lourdes Drive in the Pine Trails area.
The fugitive was wanted on five counts of sexual assault of a child, investigators said. As the task force conducted surveillance, they saw the fugitive come out of a home and tried to arrest him.
The fugitive jumped into a car, investigators said. They ordered him to surrender but then he showed he had a gun. That is when task force members opened fire on him, killing the man.
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Investigators would not confirm whether the fugitive shot at task force members.
The sheriff said no injuries to law enforcement were reported.
The Harris County District Attorney's Office is also on the scene investigating the officer-involved shooting.
The Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force is a task force that's made up of local, state, and federal agents and local police officers. Their mission is to go after the most violent offenders.
This is the second shooting in as many days involving the task force and is not far from where another man was shot while law enforcement officers were serving a warrant.
In that incident, officials said a sheriff’s deputy and a U.S. Marshall shot a suspect who had opened fire on them as they went inside a home on Black Walnut Drive. Task force members had knocked on the door while serving a drug-related warrant, but no one answered.
They then knocked down a door and that was when they encountered the armed suspect, officials said. The identity of the man who was wounded in that incident has not been released.