A Texas freeway was shut down Thursday for a number of hours after a 64-year-old girl concerned in a crash pulled out a gun and a garden chair and sat in one of many lanes, sparking an hourslong standoff, authorities stated Thursday.
The incident — which unfolded on Interstate 45 within the Spring space, north of Houston — “ended peacefully,” authorities stated when the girl surrendered. Nobody was damage within the incident.
“We saved a life,” stated Maj. Cedrick Collier, with the Harris County Sheriff’s Workplace, throughout a information convention Thursday night. “The great factor is somebody’s mom and grandmother is coming house tonight.”
Harris County Constable Precinct 4 – PHOTO: Police launched a photograph exhibiting a standoff with a lady they are saying is armed on a freeway in Houston, June 26, 2025.
Throughout the standoff, the girl, who has a historical past of psychological sickness, had a revolver in her hand, which she saved pointing at her head, Collier stated.
Disaster negotiators have been known as in to speak her by means of the state of affairs and have been even in a position to construct a rapport with the girl, Collier stated. The girl’s daughter additionally arrived to the scene and was in a position to communicate to her mom.
The incident started unfolding after the girl seems to have deliberately crashed into the again of an 18-wheeler within the southbound lanes of the interstate, Collier stated. Nobody was damage within the crash both, he stated.
Harris County Constable Precinct 4 – PHOTO: Police launched a photograph exhibiting a standoff with a lady they are saying is armed on a freeway in Houston, June 26, 2025.
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Throughout the ordeal, the Harris County Constable’s Workplace, launched pictures exhibiting the girl sitting in a garden chair in the midst of the freeway and the massive police response.
“The suspect refuses to adjust to verbal instructions and is refusing to drop the weapon,” the constable’s workplace stated earlier within the day.
Emergency crews shut down the north- and southbound lanes of the freeway amid the response, and visitors was diverted off the freeway, which has since reopened.
ABC Information’ Jack Moore contributed to this report.