Texas armed woman sitting on lawn chair on busy highway during hours of confrontation with police officer
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An armed woman sat on a lawn chair in the middle of a busy Texas highway Thursday, causing an hour-long stalemate in law enforcement, causing traffic more than she eventually surrendered.
Harris County Police District 4 deputies responded to reports from an armed woman involved in a crash involving an 18-wheel crash involving the Texas spring I-45 South. The woman and the driver of the truck were not injured in the incident.
After the collision, the woman left her vehicle in a chair and sat in the middle of the highway. The woman holding the pistol refused to put down her weapon, the police officer's office said.
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An armed woman sitting on lawn chairs in the middle of a busy Texas highway. (Harris County Police District 4)
“She keeps it on her face, throat and head, so it's hard for us to get close to her and take the gun away,” Harris County Sheriff Ed Ed Gonzalez said in a news conference, according to Fox 26.
The sheriff said she was expressing suicidal thoughts.
“It was a very subtle situation throughout the ordeal,” he said. “She had some mental illness and she was dealing with it, so there was no rationality in terms of what happened. There was some mental history, so it was certain.”
During the five-hour standoff, traffic was closed in both directions. (Harris County Police District 4)
Traffic was closed in both directions during the five-hour standoff, with law enforcement trying to negotiate with the woman, traffic support.
Crisis Intervention Response Team members responded to the scene and her daughter arrived.
“We allow her to talk to her daughter and let her know that her daughter is safe,” Gonzalez said, adding that the woman was “traveling” during the mental health crisis.
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Both members of the crisis intervention response team and the woman’s daughter responded to the scene. (Harris County Police District 4)
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“That's to let her do something stupid with us. Once she realizes her daughter is here, she's safe and she'll be allowed to see her again, and that's when it's going to be better.”
The woman eventually surrendered and was detained before being taken to a hospital for evaluation.
