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Lancaster police fatally shot a man Monday morning after he fired a gun in an apartment with a woman and two juveniles inside, Lancaster police Chief Sam Urbanski said at a news conference.
The chief said police had taken the man to a hospital for a mental health evaluation hours earlier. He was identified by police Monday afternoon as 29-year-old Kalon Horton.
Police first encountered Horton during a welfare check about 9:45 p.m. Sunday in the 1400 block of the Interstate 35E service road. They said he had refused to let a woman leave and believed he was under the influence.
Officers took Horton to Methodist Charlton Medical Center, where he was later discharged.
About 5:45 a.m. Monday, police were dispatched to a shooting call in the 1600 block of North Houston School Road. Officers learned that Horton was inside an apartment with a woman and two juveniles, the chief said. Their ages were not released.
Urbanski said Horton fired several rounds inside the apartment and officers “made contact” with him, fatally shooting him. Lancaster police said officers had announced themselves upon arrival and asked the man to come outside, according to KXAS-TV (NBC5). The chief did not provide additional details about what happened.
The people inside the apartment were not injured, police said.
Urbanski did not release any details about the officers who were involved in the shooting.
Dallas County court records show that Horton pleaded guilty to family-violence assault in a 2014 case in which police said he grabbed a woman by the neck. He was given five years of deferred-adjudication probation but was later sentenced to two years in prison after failing to follow the conditions of his probation.
In 2018, he was sentenced to three years in prison on another charge of family-violence assault for hitting a woman. It was unclear when he was released from custody.