SPRING, Texas — Precinct 4 released bodycam video Thursday of a suspect being chased on foot, then shot several times outside an LA Fitness in Spring.
The video shows the knife-welding suspect, identified as 26-year-old Donnavan Hart, inside the gym on Holzwarth Road..
"Drop it! Do not make me shoot you!" the Precinct 4 deputy yells as people inside the gym scatter.
"This was a very dangerous situation for deputies and also citizen," Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman said.
Hart ran through the basketball court and back outside as the Precinct 4 deputy and an off-duty HPD commander chased him.
Herman said Hart tried to carjack some drivers along the way.
"Drop the f-----g knife!" the deputy yelled at least seven times while chasing Hart.
"The suspect actually turned on the constable and threatened him with a knife at which point they both discharged several rounds," Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said.
Herman said Hart was struck seven times and remains in ICU but he's expected to survive.
The shooting was caught on the deputy's bodycam but KHOU 11 News is choosing not to show it.
Hart is charged with two counts of aggravated assault of a police officer.
Herman called Hart a "career criminal" and records show he has a long rap sheet, including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, assault bodily injury, evading arrest, resisting arrest and burglary.
The deputy fell and broke his wrist when Hart lunged at him but he's going to be okay.
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