The crash into an apartment complex killed an officer and injured another. No one in the apartment complex was killed.
"He's very banged up, some significant injuries, but we're hopeful that he'll survive," Acevedo said, before asking Houston citizens to keep the officer in their prayers.
Acevedo also said that the National Transport Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration will conduct investigations into the crash along with the Houston Police Department. "The police department will actually approach this, from our investigative standpoint, as a homicide investigation, because we've lost one of our own," he said."We know that, we don't leave no stone unturned as part of our investigation as to the cause of the factor of this crash. So, we'll look at it from a criminal standpoint again to make sure that there was no criminal activity that led to this tragic incident.
Despite the loss of the officer, Acevedo said that it was fortunate that the helicopter did not crash into a populated apartment complexm and there wasn't any further loss of life. At the press conference, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner asked Houston citizens to keep the officer who was killed and his family in their thoughts and prayers."I want to ask the city of Houston to continue to lift up, number one: both families, but especially lift up the family of the police officer who has died this morning," he said.
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