State officials and Houston police are investigating an incident where an off-duty Texas State Trooper shot his neighbor after mistaking him for a home intruder. […]
The state trooper who’s been with the Texas Department of Public Safety for two years apparently mistook his neighbor for a burglar, and shot him. Just after midnight the Texas State Trooper heard someone trying to get into his Downtown Houston mid-rise apartment.
An off-duty highway patrolman in Houston shot a neighbor through a closed door early Monday, thinking the man might've been an intruder, officials said.