May 26, 2010 Houston security officer shoots-kills man www.privateofficer.com
Houston police said a security guard shot and killed Everette Crockett, 21, at the Cullen Park Apartments on Wenda Street near Coffee Street at about 10:30 p.m. Monday.
Police said the man had been involved in a dispute with a female neighbor over a traffic accident. The security guard tried to detain Crockett and the two got into a dispute, police said.
Top Gun Security runs security at the apartment.
“(Crockett) began getting very belligerent, began cursing, even cursed at her (the female neighbor), said some very derogatory things to her and to our officers, and then jumped in his vehicle. At that point, our officer tried to get him to stop to get his side of the story. In the process of him leaving that first time, he brushed against the officer,” said John Beegle, with Top Gun Security.
Officials said Crockett came back to the scene.
“He threw the car in reverse. It’s my understanding he accelerated roughly 200 feet at a high rate of speed, backed into a parking spot. At that time, the officer pulled his weapon at the suspect and told him to exit the vehicle. The suspect actually, at that time, turned his vehicle directly at our officer and crammed the accelerator down,” Beegle said.
The security guard then shot Crockett, police said.
“They shot at this man’s vehicle six times,” witness Ranaisha Jones said. “They shot through this window, hit this man in his back and he died. The man’s car rolled into a tree.”
“They started firing at him … he ran into the tree,” witness Claudette Bell said. “His momma knew he was coming back, so she came out. She was holding him and he died in her arms.”
“They shot him for no reason,” mother Angela Crockett said. “He didn’t have no weapon.”
She described what she saw after hearing gunshots.
“He (the security guard) was standing there with a gun and there was a bullet hole in my son,” Angela Crockett said. “I asked him, ‘Why did you shoot my child?’ And all he could say was, ‘I’m sorry.’”
Crockett had a 1-month-old son and no criminal record. A candlelight vigil was planned for Tuesday night.
The security officer was put on paid administrative leave while the shooting is investigated.
The apartment complex’s management has not commented.
Gunshots are not new at the complex. In November, a 17-year-old was fatally shot there during a carjacking.
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