Bounty hunter shoots wanted suspect to death, sheriff says

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A man was shot to death Monday night after Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said a bounty hunter found a wanted suspect he was in search of at a west Harris County apartment.

Deputies were called to the Park Falls Apartments on Park Row Drive around 7 p.m.

Gonzalez said the suspect tried to drive off in a vehicle and may have attempted to strike the bounty hunter. That’s when the agent fired his weapon and struck the suspect, according to deputies.

Upon their arrival, authorities said they found a Hispanic man in his 20s dead.

Neither the victim nor the bounty hunter were immediately identified.