An armed 64-year-old woman expressing “suicidal thoughts” blocked a highway in the Houston area for several hours by sitting on a lawn chair in the middle of the roadway.
Authorities notified the public about the incident around 2:00 p.m. Thursday when Lt. Terry Garza with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office posted in an update to X that the southbound highway on Interstate 45 near Cypresswood was “completely shut down” as first responders dealt with the “active situation.”
HCSO authorities later released a statement that said a “woman, armed with a pistol, is seated on a chair” in the middle of the roadway. They noted that the woman was expressing “suicidal thoughts,” and that the Crisis Intervention Response Team was in communication with her…