Texas man livestreams final moments before shootout with law enforcement on Facebook

HOUSTON -- "He doesn't hatred the police," said Angela Washington, a time aft her member was changeable and killed during a confrontation with instrumentality enforcement Sunday successful Houston.

Washington identified him arsenic 47-year-old Patrick Hurst, who authorities said was pulled implicit during a postulation halt connected FM-1960 adjacent Ella Boulevard.

A abbreviated pursuit followed earlier Hurst allegedly got retired and fired astatine Harris County Sheriff's Office deputies. They fired back, sidesplitting him.

During the shootout, gunfire injured a pistillate getting groceries nearby. Bullets besides deed a backstage schoolhouse bus, but fortunately, with nary children inside.

The video successful the subordinate supra is from a erstwhile report.

What's hard for Washington to judge is that she was connected the telephone with her member erstwhile each this occurred.

"Don't bash it," Washington remembered telling her brother.

She could besides spot that Hurst was livestreaming everything connected Facebook Live.

"What we saw yesterday, I consciousness like, was a intelligence breakdown. I don't cognize what," Washington said.

Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said Hurst was a sovereign national who claims that the U.S. government's laws don't use to them. But Washington disputes that.

Washington said her member faced intelligence wellness issues implicit the past fewer years but claimed helium didn't qualify himself arsenic a sovereign national to household members. In fact, she did not adjacent cognize her member had a limb until the shooting.

"He was ever doing God's work. He was ever doing our father's business," Washington said, remembering the happier times of the household increasing up. "That's the honorable to God's truth. So this was a large shock.

Washington said she's not aggravated toward the sheriff's office. However, she besides wants others to cognize that her brother's last moments were not however she volition retrieve him.

HCSO said it volition person to hold for ballistic investigating results to find retired whose gunfire deed the guiltless shopper and the schoolhouse bus.