Attorneys representing the family of Tony Underwood dispute police’s telling of his 2025 shooting death and claim he threw his gun away from himself before lying face down on the ground after being chased by officers.
The mother of a man who was shot and killed last year by a Houston Police Department (HPD) officer is suing the department and other local government agencies for the alleged wrongful death of her son and for allegedly preventing her from visiting him in the hospital in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.
The lawsuit was filed in Harris County earlier this month against HPD, the officer who was involved in the shooting, the city of Houston, the Harris County Attorney’s Office and the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. They are accused of initially preventing Tony Underwood’s mother, Patricia Underwood, from visiting her son. The lawsuit seeks $1 million in damages and also alleges that Tony Underwood was unarmed when he was shot by police.
Several months after his death in July 2025, his family also is still trying to obtain a copy of his autopsy report. The case file on the website for the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences shows Underwood died from complications of a gunshot wound involving the chest and neck, and his manner of death is listed as homicide…