HURST, Texas — Updated at 3:39 p.m. with an eyewitness account.
The Texas Rangers are conducting an investigation after a 23-year-old man who was allegedly breaking car windows was shot by a Hurst officer, officials said.
According to Hurst police, officers received a 911 call around 5 p.m. Wednesday of a man firing a gun at Station 121 at Town Center Apartments, which is located on the border of Hurst and North Richland Hills.
Authorities said they believe the man was in North Richland Hills before the incident. At one point he made his way to the apartment complex and started breaking car windows with a gun in his hand, according to officials.
Hurst police officers responded to the complex and located the man in the parking lot. According to a witness, the man saw the Hurst officer and began firing his handgun at the officer, police said. That's when the officer returned fire and struck the man.
The shooting happened outside Tyrone Billington’s front door.
“I was upstairs just laying down in my bedroom, heard some pop pop pop pop,” Billington said. “And looked out saw two officers just kind of firing saying stop, stop. Put the gun down. Put the gun down.”
“That’s when the officers kind of hid behind my vehicle for cover, and then he eventually finally laid down and they apprehended him just a couple feet down that way,” Billington said.
The shooting brought a response from Hurst and North Richland Hills Police because it happened on the border. Billington believes the officer who fired at the suspect acted appropriately.
“Police were very justified in this situation,” Billington added. “I really applaud the Hurst Police Department, North Richland Hills Police Department for acting so quickly on a situation and handling it so nobody else, no other residents got hurt as well.”
The man was transported to John Peter-Smith Hospital, where he remains hospitalized as of Thursday afternoon, Hurst officials say. Other details about his condition were not released.
Officials said the officer was not injured during the incident.
No further details have been released.
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