3 Police officers shot in Houston - Suspect caught by good Samaritan

A gunman shot three cops in Houston in the middle of a wild car chase across the city that ended with him barricaded in a house on Thursday, police said.

The three wounded officers were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries and in stable condition, authorities said in a media briefing.

“All three officers are in good spirits, all were talkative,” Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner told reporters after meeting with the officers at Memorial Hermann Hospital.

The gunman was arrested after an hours-long standoff at a house in Houston’s Fifth Ward on Thursday night. He surrendered and walked out of the house with his hands raised at 7:45 p.m.

The suspect had a gunshot wound to the neck, officials said.

Police were called to a home on Trolley Street at 2:42 p.m. over an unspecified disturbance but a man inside spotted cops and ran out of the home. He sped away in a car before crashing at McGowen Street in the city’s Third Ward, Police Chief Troy Finner said.

As police got out of their vehicle, the man opened fire with what is believed to be an automatic weapon and struck the three officers, Finner said. One cop was hit in the leg, another in the arm, and the third in a foot, authorities said.

First video shows the shootout:


Second video shows the suspect takedown by a civilian good Samaritan:



Sources tell KPRC 2 that the suspect is 31-year-old Roland Caballero.

According to a criminal history record from the Texas Department of Public Safety, Caballero has been arrested multiple times since 2008 - when he was 18 years old.