HPD sergeant shot while responding to call near Hobby Airport in SE Houston

HOUSTON – A police sergeant is recovering in the hospital after investigators said a gunman shot him while responding to a call late Thursday night in southeast Houston.

It happened a little after 11:30 p.m. when officials said two sergeants with the Houston Police Department were called to reports of a suspicious person with a weapon on Mykawa Road and Almeda Genoa near Hobby Airport.

Once both officers arrived, one of them was shot in the leg. He was later identified as Sgt. Paul George, a 27-year veteran with HPD…

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