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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/1725412
Jan. 6, 2003, 6:54AM
Constable kills man with pistol outside downtown club
By MIKE GLENN
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle
A Harris County constable working a part-time security job fatally shot a man early Sunday in the parking lot of a downtown nightclub.
Truyen The Pham, 22, was shot about 2:30 a.m. after he pointed a pistol at another constable outside the Spy nightclub at Travis and Commerce, police said.
Pham, a Port Arthur resident, was thrown out of the club after he became involved in a verbal confrontation with several other men.
The argument continued outside where the two constables, Cpl. F. Castillo and Deputy D. Avalos, spotted Pham carrying a pistol.
"He was ordered on several occasions to drop the weapon and he refused," said Cpl. Jarrel Caldwell, with the Precinct 6 Constable's Office. "He began discharging the weapon into the crowd of spectators."
One of the rounds struck a woman in the leg.
The constables continued ordering Pham to drop the weapon but he refused. Castillo, a 10-year veteran constable, fired several times after Pham pointed the weapon toward Avalos, police said.
Pham fell and was pronounced dead at the scene. He was the city's third homicide this year.
The injured woman was taken to an area hospital and treated for wounds that were not considered life-threatening, police said.
Homicide detectives with the Houston Police Department and the Harris County District Attorney's Office are both investigating the incident, a routine in any officer-involved shooting.
The Precinct 6 Constable's Office also is conducting an internal investigation into the shooting.
"The officers involved are placed on administrative leave until the investigation is completed," Caldwell said.
Another man, who also was thrown out of the same club, died Nov. 17 after a running gunfight with two Houston police officers working security jobs there.
Michael Richard Barrett, 25, a convicted drug offender, of the 2000 block of Bagby, died at Memorial Hermann Hospital after the shooting that began shortly after 1 a.m.
Officers L.T. Gibson and R.G. Flores were investigating a gunshot when they spotted Barrett with a 9 mm handgun. They chased Barrett from the club's parking lot and later confronted him under a bridge in the 300 block of Washington.
Gibson and Flores approached Barrett and fired at him, striking him twice, when he pointed his weapon at them, police said.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/1725412
Jan. 6, 2003, 6:54AM
Constable kills man with pistol outside downtown club
By MIKE GLENN
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle
A Harris County constable working a part-time security job fatally shot a man early Sunday in the parking lot of a downtown nightclub.
Truyen The Pham, 22, was shot about 2:30 a.m. after he pointed a pistol at another constable outside the Spy nightclub at Travis and Commerce, police said.
Pham, a Port Arthur resident, was thrown out of the club after he became involved in a verbal confrontation with several other men.
The argument continued outside where the two constables, Cpl. F. Castillo and Deputy D. Avalos, spotted Pham carrying a pistol.
"He was ordered on several occasions to drop the weapon and he refused," said Cpl. Jarrel Caldwell, with the Precinct 6 Constable's Office. "He began discharging the weapon into the crowd of spectators."
One of the rounds struck a woman in the leg.
The constables continued ordering Pham to drop the weapon but he refused. Castillo, a 10-year veteran constable, fired several times after Pham pointed the weapon toward Avalos, police said.
Pham fell and was pronounced dead at the scene. He was the city's third homicide this year.
The injured woman was taken to an area hospital and treated for wounds that were not considered life-threatening, police said.
Homicide detectives with the Houston Police Department and the Harris County District Attorney's Office are both investigating the incident, a routine in any officer-involved shooting.
The Precinct 6 Constable's Office also is conducting an internal investigation into the shooting.
"The officers involved are placed on administrative leave until the investigation is completed," Caldwell said.
Another man, who also was thrown out of the same club, died Nov. 17 after a running gunfight with two Houston police officers working security jobs there.
Michael Richard Barrett, 25, a convicted drug offender, of the 2000 block of Bagby, died at Memorial Hermann Hospital after the shooting that began shortly after 1 a.m.
Officers L.T. Gibson and R.G. Flores were investigating a gunshot when they spotted Barrett with a 9 mm handgun. They chased Barrett from the club's parking lot and later confronted him under a bridge in the 300 block of Washington.
Gibson and Flores approached Barrett and fired at him, striking him twice, when he pointed his weapon at them, police said.
