A lady mentioned to be armed with a pistol pulled out a chair and sat within the southbound lanes of Interstate 45 north of Houston on Thursday afternoon, inflicting the freeway to be shut down in each instructions for a number of hours.
Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez mentioned on social media shortly earlier than 3 p.m. Thursday that the lady was “expressing suicidal ideas” and that the Disaster Intervention Response Group for the sheriff’s workplace was deployed. In a subsequent put up at about 6:45 p.m., Gonzalez mentioned the “incident has been resolved and the individual has been detained.”
Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman mentioned in his personal social media put up the standoff “ended peacefully” and that the northbound and southbound lanes had been reopening. He beforehand mentioned the lady had been concerned in a crash and was refusing to “adjust to verbal instructions and is refusing to drop the weapon.”
Through the standoff within the 19000 block of the North Freeway close to its intersection with Cypresswood Drive in Spring, law enforcement diverted southbound visitors on the Grand Parkway and redirected northbound visitors at Cypresswood.