Two Stories —
Story 1:
2018-37932 – On June 27th at 12:51 a.m., officers responded to a report of a major accident at the intersection of Decker and Wade Road. Upon arrival officers found a silver Saturn passenger car had struck an 18 Wheeler. During the investigation it was determined that the passenger car was traveling south on Wade Road approaching Decker. The 18 wheeler was outbound on the service road of Decker and had stopped at the railroad tracks as required by the driver’s company policy. The passenger car failed to stop at the stop sign on Wade Road and struck the rear axle of the 18 wheeler cab. The driver of the passenger car, a 22 year old Baytown woman, was cited for failing to stop at the stop sign and was subsequently transported by ambulance to Hermann Hospital in Houston to be treated for her non-life threatening injuries. There was no indication that alcohol or drugs contributed to the accident.
Lieutenant Steve Dorris
Criminal Investigations Division
City of Baytown Police Department
3200 N. Main
Baytown, Texas 77521
Office: 281-420-6617
Cell: 713-412-1521
Story 2: (Update/Official BPD Press Release —
Official Press Release from BPD concerning dramatic incident at Goose Creek Park on Wednesday evening (See our previous post) —
2018-38070 – On June 27th at 4:15 p.m., officers responded to a the Goose Creek Park in reference to a subject, a 27 year old Baytown man, who had contacted the police department expressing he was in mental distress and needed help. When officers arrived they found the subject, who they were familiar with from previous similar encounters, under the pavilion near the pool and as officers approached the subject he jumped onto a table at which time officers noticed he had a bottle of beer in one hand and a handgun in his in his waist band. Officers attempted to open a dialogue with the subject, however refused to follow their commands and instead began trying to entice the officers to shoot him. After several attempts to gain compliance verbally failed, officers deployed an OC Chemical Agent (pepper spray) as well as a less lethal “bean bag” round at the subjects torso to gain compliance, neither of which seemed to have any effect on the subject. The subject then retreated and barricaded himself in of the bathrooms. Officers continued to use voice commands to attempt to convince the subject to exit the bathroom, which he refused to do. Eventually the subject did throw the gun out of the bathroom, however he continued to refuse to exit and comply with the officers’ commands. At this point officers and a K-9 entered the bathroom to attempt to take the subject into custody, however he continued to resist officers which led to one of the officers being forced to deploy his department issued Taser, which resulted in officers finally being able to detain the subject. Based on the subject’s mental state he was transported to the San Jacinto Hospital where an emergency detention order was completed and the subject was released to hospital staff for mental evaluation. It was also determined that the handgun was actually a Co2 BB Gun.
Lieutenant Steve Dorris
Criminal Investigations Division
City of Baytown Police Department
3200 N. Main
Baytown, Texas 77521
Office: 281-420-6617
Cell: 713-412-1521
On Tuesday evening, June 27, 2018, a dramatic incident occurred at Goose Creek Park in Baytown as Baytown police negotiated with a subject to “put the gun down.” Check back for the official Baytown police press release.