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Off duty HPD officer working a second gig security but in his HPD uniform see black man (Jordan Baker), says black man fits description of a robbery suspect he confronts Jordan Jordan then allegedelly lunges at officer officer throws a hot slug in Jordan Jordan dies
this all happened in Acres Homes by the way this happened back in January so the shooting is not "news" but this Grand Jury decision if to indict the cop is.
A Harris County grand jury convened this morning to continue investigating the fatal shooting of an unarmed man by a Houston police officer in January.
The grand jury could decide as early as today whether to indict or clear Officer Juventino Castro in the shooting of 26-year-old Jordan Baker.
The inquiry marks one of Harris County's first grand jury deliberations in a police shooting following recent national unrest over the lack of indictments in the officer-involved deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in Staten Island, N.Y.
Baker died in January in the 5700 block of West Little York near Antoine.
Castro, who at the time had been on the force 10 years, was not injured in the incident. Castro was in uniform and working an extra job in a shopping center, according to an HPD news release. Businesses in the center had hired off-duty officers for security after a recent string of robberies.
Castro tried to stop Baker in the parking lot, leading to a brief struggle and foot chase, the release said. Baker stopped running away and charged at the officer, reaching into his waistband, police said.
Castro fired his gun one time, striking Baker, police said.
Harris County grand juries have cleared HPD officers of criminal wrongdoing in all shootings since 2008. More than a quarter of the 121 civilians shot by the department's officials from 2008 to 2012 were — like Baker — unarmed, according to a Houston Chronicle analysis.
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