Kingwood possibly dodged a bullet yesterday, could have been bad.

[Acera]

I was told about this from an LEO buddy who had a little more information than the following article related. He mentioned that the guy had tried to gain entrance to the library 1/2 hour before it opened. When he returned to the parking lot, he began shooting at nothing in particular. Killed himself when the police arrived.

I think we got real lucky, no telling what would have happened if he had showed up when the library was open and went inside. Any victims and we would have been all over then news.


Police offer more details in Kingwood library suicide | Ultimate Kingwood

Police offer more details in Kingwood library suicide

by Scott Gordon, published January 20, 2011 4:55 pm

The staff of a library in Kingwood offered their condolences Thursday as
police continued to investigate an apparent suicide there.

"We do all feel very extremely sorrowful for the incident and the man and
his family," says Christi Whittington, the Harris County Public Library's
Branch Librarian for Kingwood.

A Houston Police officer was on patrol Wednesday just before 10:30 a.m. when
he heard a gunshot and saw a man in the parking lot at the library, 4400
Bens View Lane, says Houston PD spokesman Keese Smith.

"The complainant was outside a black truck waving a silver-colored
revolver," Smith says. "As additional HPD officers arrived on the scene, the
complainant placed the weapon to his head and fired once."

Officers called for medical assistance, and the man was pronounced dead at
the scene, Smith says. Police reports do not specify why the man fired the
initial shot the officer heard.

Smith says no one else was hurt, but it isn't clear if anyone else was
around at the time. The library is closed on Wednesdays.

As of 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, the Harris County Institute of Forensic
Sciences had not yet released the man's identity.

 

[thehemi]

Some guy who had lost his wife to cancer a few years ago.
I didn't know he tried to gain entrance to the library before.
Scary thinking about how that could have turned out.