{"id":599,"date":"2025-12-09T18:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/?p=599"},"modified":"2025-12-09T18:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:26:10","slug":"texas-officer-shot-at-point-blank-range-at-gas-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/09\/texas-officer-shot-at-point-blank-range-at-gas-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Officer Shot at Point-Blank Range at Gas Station"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shocking video footage has been released by police of the moment a traffic stop in Texas unexpectedly turned into a three-man gunfight between two police officers and a suspect.<\/p>\n

One officer was shot at close range as gunfire suddenly broke out during what had appeared to be until then been a good-natured exchange with suspect Jimmy Bryan, 23, on a highway in Houston.<\/p>\n

Footage was released by police this week of the shootout that took place at about 11:20 a.m. local time on Wednesday, May 4, in a gas station in the 14800 block of the Gulf Freeway, which is part of the South Interstate Highway 45. The footage can be seen.<\/p>\n

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Various camera angles show how the shooting unfolded through footage from the Houston\u00a0Police<\/a>\u00a0Department (HPD) officers\u2019 body-worn cameras and the dash-cam footage from their vehicle. Officer J. Sallee and his partner, Officer M. McMurtry, are seen approaching the suspect\u2019s vehicle after making the traffic stop.<\/p>\n

McMurtry walks up to the driver who appears relaxed with an arm hanging out of the window. \u201cWhat\u2019s up, brother?\u201d the officer says, and chuckles as he points out the car is not yet in park. He asks about the vehicle then says, \u201cYou got your driver\u2019s license on you, buddy?\u201d As the suspect looks around his car, supposedly for his license, and checks his phone, the officer asks: \u201cYou got any weapons on you, brother?\u201d The suspect shakes his head and replies: \u201cNo, sir.\u201d The officer notes the suspect is wearing an ankle monitor and repeats his request for his ID. But the suspect is unable to provide any, and McMurtry says, \u201cHere, why don\u2019t you do me a favor and take off your seatbelt and step out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The suspect does not make a move, and the officer asks if he\u2019d heard him. He replies: \u201cAre you requesting me, or\u2026?\u201d The officer says he is now \u201ctelling\u201d him. But as the suspect opens his door, he opens fire, hitting McMurtry\u2019s partner, Sallee, who had just walked around the front of the vehicle to join his colleague. Sallee falls to the ground but was able to grab his gun and begin shooting, while McMurtry has also begun shooting at the suspect, who was also firing. McMurtry runs around the car, reloading his gun as he does so, and Sallee begins to shout: \u201cI\u2019m hit!\u201d McMurtry shouts: \u201cPartner! Are you good?\u201d Sallee screams again that he\u2019s been hit, and McMurtry shouts \u201cGoddammit!\u201d As McMurtry comes around the front of the vehicle, both Sallee and the suspect can be seen lying on the ground and McMurtry throws the suspect\u2019s weapon away from them all.<\/p>\n

Sallee shouts out that he\u2019s been hit in the femur, as more officers arrive at the scene. One calls for a tourniquet and another says to load him into their truck as Sallee tells them: \u201cI\u2019m bleeding a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officer J. Sallee was shot in the lower pelvic area and was rushed to Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital in a stable condition, HPD said. His partner, Officer M. McMurtry, was uninjured. Both men, who are assigned to the Traffic Enforcement Division, joined the HPD in June 2012.<\/p>\n

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HPD Chief Troy Finner told local news channel KPRC 2 that Sallee is expected to make a full recovery and added: \u201cThank God for his ballistic vest and flashlight, which may have saved his life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Shocking video footage has been released by police of the moment a traffic stop in Texas unexpectedly turned into a three-man gunfight between two police officers and a suspect. One officer was shot at close range as gunfire suddenly broke out during what had appeared to be until then been a good-natured exchange […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdstone-n.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}