Posted on 08/21/2009 11:28:03 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
A Pasadena police officer was killed this morning in a shootout in which the suspect also was seriously wounded.
Officer Jesse Hamilton, 29, was flown to Memorial Hermann Hospital-Texas Medical Center, where he died of a head wound.
Four Pasadena police officers responded to a disturbance call made at 6:09 a.m. from a trailer park near the intersection of Shaver and Queens before 6:30 a.m., Assistant Police Chief Bud Corbett said. Hamilton was the first officer to arrive.
The suspect, 24-year-old Sergio Robles, arrived at his mother's trailer home around 5 a.m. after his wife and child spent the night there following a domestic dispute elsewhere, Corbett said. The disturbance call more than an hour later indicated no guns were involved.
Corbett said Hamilton was talking to the mother on the porch when he learned Robles had a handgun, and he radioed that in around 6:25 a.m.
Almost immediately after that, Robles came to the door and shot the officer in the head with a semiautomatic handgun.
At 6:29 a.m. an officer called dispatch to report that shots were fired and an officer was down.
Another officer approached the trailer in a cruiser and saw Robles on the porch near Hamilton's body. Corbett said the suspect, a gun still in his hands, turned toward the officer who got out of his vehicle and shot Robles with at least one round.
Robles was struck in the head and is in serious condition at Memorial Hermann.
Police said Hamilton was a four-year veteran and a married father of an infant and twin daughters.
The last fatal shooting of a Pasadena police officer was in 1993 when Officer Les Early was shot and killed in a drug raid.
"It doesn’t happen very often in Pasadena," Corbett said. "We wish it was more rare..."
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Ban all trailer parks!
A shame the officer was murdered by this jerk.
He should have been in jail.
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Prayers out for the family.
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