ICE officials say the suspect who killed one Houston police officer and wounded another was in the U.S. illegally.
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Brian Houston, police, community,
Brian Houston, police community,
is mourning the death of one of
their own after horrific attack,
Chcharles Preston was shot and
sadly killed Tuesday, while
responding to a domestic
violence call
now ice says his accused killer
in the. U DOT S illegally
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kilo from El Salvador could face
the death penalty as he is
charged with murder
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terrible loss for you and
everyone at the department. Can
you give us an idea what took
place?
Yes,
we had been out to that location
to vated potential issues with
domestic violence acouple times
before, but nothing had risen to
arrestable offense
Tuesday morning Sergeant Preston
was at the scene with a couple
officers to help the 14 year old
Son to get cooperation from the
suspect to move out.
She had had enough and sadly, at
one point, the 14 year old boy
opened the door unlocked it
with the key
as the door opens. Our officers
are outside.
He says: oh, my god, he has got a
gun.
He starts. Shooting
struck his own son with gunfire
struck officer Courtney Waller.
In the arm with gunfire- and
sadly he struck Sergeant
Preston
sergeant Preston was able to
respond and return fire.
He fired one round
actually struck him in the
abdomen and suffice it to say.
Obviously we are here because,
tragically he died,
he died a hero.
He lived a great life,
he was a great son,
a great cop.
Above all else, he was a great
human being and we are going to
miss him greatly.
Brian unbelievable. It
shows you the nature of your
job
domestic dispute.
Have you been there before?
You think you know what you are
getting into?
My goodness, you she up domestic
dispute thats. What people are
saying law enforcement has to
show one domestic dispute with
therapist and psychologists
house. Would that have gone?
You know we do qui use
multi disciplinary response with
our cert teams, our crisis
intervention response teams that actually has healthcare
actually has healthcare
professionals with us.
We dont put them in harms
way.
Domestic violence calls are some
of the most dangerous.
We lost sergeant Christopher
Brewster two years ago on
December seventh,
and he was gunned down by a man
thats a coward
men that abuse their wives and
children are cowards,
Crowrdz dangerous because they
have no respect for the sanctity
of life, let alone their own
family.
Brian. This guy doesnt even
belong here.
Look at his rap sheet:
unlawful charged one lawful,
carrying a firearm in two thousand and four
two thousand two separate assault
charge:
two thousand and one causing bodily assault to a
family member,
two thousand and two evading arrest with motor
vehicle.
How does he stay here in twenty twenty?
This was a time bomb ready to
blowed a we knew about it twenty
years ago.
You know one of the things
that we talk about as police chiefs with our partners at DHS
Chiefs with our partners at DHS.
Is that law enforcement and will
federal officers very little
resource?
We have worked with our partners,
especially Hli Homeland Security,
Veafingses, to try to focus our
resources on people that are
violent,
undocumented, violent.
At the end of the day, our
number one priority has to be
the sanctity of life, which means
the protection of the american
people from violence and
including other undocumented
immigrants. Those that are just
here to work,
sadly disproportionately
impacted the most by
undocumented immigrants, because
thats, who they victimize
thoughing that they would be
afraid to come forward.
That was the case here,
because the victim she was undocumented and he kept
undocumented and he kept
threatening her that, fortunately
she finally did come forward and
no one else was killed than
sergeant Preston who did his job
to the very end.
Brian im, not a lawyer.
Do you one of these things? You
should be gone forever,
real, quick chief. How is the
other officer doing?
He is hurting
psychologically emotionally,
he lost a sergeant and he had
surgery one surgery already.
Is he going to have another one
today
we have been visiting with him
and we are going to be there for
him and his family,
and we are going to celebrate
the life of sergeant, Harold
Preston, that not many people
will say his name,
but we will.
We will say his name:
we will engrave his name and
celebrate his life and make sure
that his 23 year old daughter
knows that her daddy died a
hero
and he will will be remembered.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-22.