Houston security officer kills man armed with butcher knife www.privateofficer.com

Houston TX Aug 28 2010 An apartment security guard fatally shot a 35-year-old man who threatened him with a beer bottle, fireplace poker and butcher knife late Friday at a Greenspoint-area apartment complex, officials said.

Roderick McGuire, 26, was working security at the complex in the 800 block of Greens shortly before midnight when he and another guard checked on two men drinking beer, listening to loud music and talking loudly outside.

The guards asked the two men to turn off the music and go indoors.

Elvin Jeovanny Flores refused to go in, threw a bottle at the guards and retreated indoors. He returned with the fireplace tool, police said.

Flores went back inside and came outside with a butcher knife, which he used to try tried to stab McGuire, and the guard shot him in the stomach, police said.

Flores died at Memorial Hermann Hospital-The Texas Medical Center.

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