Tag Archives: Traffic-stopping highway standoff leads to arrest in southwest Houston

A man threatening to take his life Tuesday night from a towering ramp that connects the Southwest Freeway and Sam Houston Parkway brought rush hour traffic to a halt for several hours as police tried coaxing him from the edge. The unidentified man was initially suspected of damaging a car at an apartment complex around 4:15 p.m. but ended up …

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