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Name Not Disclosed

Age : 51

Gender : Male

Race : Unknown

Date : 08/31/2021

Location : 7200 Hillcroft Avenue

City : Houston

County : Harris

State : Texas

Agency : Houston Police Department

Officer(s) :Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Vehicle

Event : Driver killed by police chase crash

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

On 08/31/2021, shortly before 1:30 p.m., Houston Police Department officers responded to the 7100 block of Hillcroft Avenue after receiving a report that a 51-year-old man was assaulting his wife. When officers arrived, the man had already left the location in a gray Honda Accord. Police alleged that the woman suffered injuries during the assault and transported her to an area hospital for treatment.
According to HPD, the man drove north on Hillcroft Avenue after leaving the domestic disturbance. In the 7200 block, he lost control of the Honda and struck the rear of a black Ford F-450 tow truck. The crash occurred only about one block from the location where police had responded to the domestic violence call.
Emergency personnel transported the man to Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, where he died from his injuries. The Ford driver was not injured. HPD's Vehicular Crimes Division assigned Sgt. P. Lee and Officer D. Ortega to investigate the fatal crash under incident number 117620921-Q. Those officers were crash investigators and should not be identified as officers involved in the preceding encounter.
Contemporary reporting described the man as “fleeing from police,” but HPD's own official crash report does not state that officers were actively pursuing the Honda when it crashed. It states that officers responded to the domestic violence report, found that the man had fled in the Honda, and that he subsequently crashed on Hillcroft. The available evidence therefore does not establish a continuous police vehicle pursuit strongly enough to classify this as a standard police-chase fatality.
HPD did not publicly identify the 51-year-old man in its initial release, stating that identification was pending notification of his family. A search of subsequent indexed reporting and HPD material did not locate a reliable later public identification.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://abc13.com/man-killed-crash-assaulting-wife-husband-dead/10992650/
https://www.houstontx.gov/police/nr/2021/aug/nr210831-6.htm