DAVID HUERTA
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Officer Rank: Police Officer
Memorial Panel: 26-W: 1
Department: Houston, Texas, P.D.
End of Watch: September 19, 1973
Cause: SHOT
Age: 27
Years of Service: 4
Description: Officer Huerta was shot and killed while arresting a man for violating a restraining order. Officer Huerta was flagged down by a woman who informed him her husband was at her apartment in violation of the order. When Officer Huerta told the man he had to escort him out of the apartment the man asked to retrieve some belongings from a room. Officer Huerta allowed him to do so and used the phone to call headquarters. The man emerged from the room with a 12-gauge shotgun and killed his wife and Officer Huerta. The suspect then committed suicide after barricading himself in the apartment.
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