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Floyd Young III
Gender : Male
Age : 17
Race : Black
Date : 09/29/2023
Location : Bennington Rd
City : Houston
County : Harris
State : Texas
Agency : Houston PD
Officer(s) :T. Hitz
Cause of Death : Gunshot
Event : Killed by police during investigation
OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :
Houston PD ‘s Special Investigations Unit conducting a “crime suppression investigation” allegedly “saw something on social media that concerned them” and went to an apartment on Bennington in North Houston. When they arrived, they found Floyd Young, shooting a music video with an “assault style weapon” and immediately opened fire, killing him. Police claim that Floyd Young pointed a rifle at them.
A number of eyewitnesses emphatically insist that he was commonly shooting rap videos while posing with weapons. He had allegedly announced on FB that he would shoot another video. Police allegedly saw a teenager with a rifle on FB and stormed the house, killing him, while he was posing with weapons during the shoot of a music video which he had done many times before. Eyewitnesses were adamant that he was no threat to anyone when shot and killed during the filming.
