As rain pummeled Houston in the dark at 4 a.m. early on Sunday, Aug. 27, Police Sgt. Steve Perez left home in his patrol car.
He tried to find a way to his assignment downtown, but flooded streets blocked all of his options. By protocol, he headed to the closest police station in Kingwood instead.
“Here’s a man that didn’t spend 20 minutes and then came back to say ‘Hey I tried.’ He spent close to two and a half hours, because it was in his DNA,” said Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo.
Perez didn’t make it to Kingwood. He drove into an underpass in the dark that was flooded with over 16 feet of water and drowned.
Police Sgt. Steve Perez. Houston Police Department
