After a 911 dispatcher heard a gunshot while on the phone with the suspect's wife, the 37-year-old refused to come outside, HPD said. He did, however, allow the couple's 3-year-old son to exit the home.
HPD said there was a 3-year-old child present at the time of the shooting. The victim's husband surrendered after a five-hour SWAT standoff.A man has been charged after his wife was shot and killed before a five-hour standoff with police in northeast Houston on Sunday.
Officers were dispatched to a home at 4311 Vista Ridge Drive where a woman called 911, stating her husband, later identified as Anderson, was threatening to shoot her, Houston police said. When officers arrived, they asked Anderson to step outside of the house, but he refused, sparking the hourslong standoff.
After several hours of negotiations with members of the HPD Hostage Negotiation and SWAT teams, Anderson surrendered and was taken into custody.
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