Traffic shutdown on I-10 near Wilcrest for safety, Houston TX


Authorities have closed I-10 near Wilcrest and Kirkwood exits due to a potential suicidal person incident. Traffic control measures include blocking Wilcrest Speed Road and eastbound lanes of I-10 to ensure public safety while officers assist the individual.
Audio|Source: Houston Police Department - All Districts
02:58
Transcript:
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75, 0-30 to the units around over here on the Katy Freeway.
00:04
We're now arrived, can we have one unit block off the Wilcrest-Westbound exit, and we're going to block off all the Wilcrest Speed Road to Pointe Westbound and Eastbound.
00:20
I never got an update.
00:22
The call came in from Watch Command.
00:23
She was... Somebody that works there is supposed to be out there somewhere and saw it happen.
00:28
After that it is.
00:29
Not if you had a normal record.
00:30
A normal record is needing on linewell, 9900 linewell.
00:33
Female at 45 Inbound Patton Street who has the left in a town around the vehicle 2004 vehicle with LeSaber,
00:42
may or may not have a child with her, said she wanted to get into oncoming traffic, possible CIT suicidal person, China Pins.
00:53
One-137 days.
00:54
Go ahead. Yes, ma'am, I've got, I found the mill, but he's not on the property anymore.
00:59
Right now he's at one of the bus stop, metro bus stop, so can we get a Metro PD come on here?
01:04
No, okay.
01:05
Can you ask him if he's been on the property? They want to know if he's been on the property for some reason?
01:09
No, he's not been on the property.
01:11
While he was on the sidewalk, he was closing the gate.
01:14
I'm Marcus.
01:15
Don Laiwell. capable of this.
01:16
We want to be 41 here.
01:18
Our updated location is going to be 850 Harvest Time Lane.
01:21
We're going to go try to help this citizen.
01:24
Can I get one unit to come up Wilcrest and just meet where the HFD pumper is? It's going to be on the south side of the I-10, and then all of the any additional units, can you please send them to shut down I-10? We're just going to shut down eastbound.
01:39
If we could shut it down at Kirkwood, that'd be great.
01:41
So any additional units, they could just go around, start to stage, and then shut down when they got enough units going eastbound at the Kirkwood exit.
01:48
Have any unit that's going to check by location, Katy Freeway eastbound at Kirkwood.
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