A high-speed police chase through north Harris County ended Monday morning with a dramatic crash near an apartment complex — and two local tire shop workers caught the entire scene unfold just steps from their front door.
Deputies say the chase started just before 10 a.m. when they tried to stop a white Dodge Ram on FM 1960. The female driver got out, but the male passenger — wanted on six felony warrants out of Galveston County — jumped behind the wheel and took off.
The man’s warrants included four counts of child endangerment, aggravated assault, and felony evading.
The chase and the crash
Deputies chased the truck for nearly 20 miles, weaving through busy roads and side streets before the suspect crashed near Kuykendahl and Bammelwood Drive, right outside an apartment complex.
Across the street, inside a tire shop, workers Javier Lanza and José Luis Correa were watching — and fearing the worst.
‘We didn’t know if it was a shootout’
Lanza told KPRC 2:
“We saw about ten patrols… we didn’t know what was going on, but they were running. Then they came back. That’s when I took the video. I saw the truck crash, and I saw all the cops pulling out weapons. We didn’t know — maybe it’s a shootout, whatever, we didn’t know what’s going on.”
Correa added:
“Suddenly, we thought of protecting ourselves for safety… because the movement outside was too much.”
Both said they had only been working at the tire shop a few months and had never seen that level of police activity on their street.
Suspect taken into custody
Deputies say after the crash, the suspect initially refused to get out of the truck but eventually surrendered peacefully. Both he and his adoptive mother were taken to the hospital as a precaution.
Officials say he now faces additional felony evading charges out of Harris County.
