The man accused of fatally shooting a Houston doctor who once treated former President George H.W. Bush killed himself when confronted by two police officers Friday morning, authorities said.
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said Joseph Pappas refused to show his right hand when confronted by a police officer and killed himself when a second officer arrived at the scene. Acevedo said the the 62-year-old suspect had been wearing a bulletproof vest.
“You normally don’t put on a bulletproof vest when you’re thinking about suicide,” he said at news conference Friday. The chief credited the suspect’s suicide to the arrival of a second officer on the scene.
Pappas is suspected of fatally shooting Dr. Mark Hausknecht as the cardiologist rode his bike to work at Houston Methodist Hospital. Acevedo suggested Wednesday that Pappas may have been seeking revenge for his mother, who died on Hausknecht’s operating table in 1997.
Acevedo said Friday officers who had searched Pappas’ home had found a “very extensive intelligence file on Hausknecht.
“He knew everything that you could possibly find on this man,” he said.
Police have been searching for Pappas and considered him armed, dangerous and possibly suicidal.
Check back for details on this developing story.
Source : Nbcnewyork
