Man shot and killed by Harris County deputies

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A man was shot and killed by a Harris County deputy in the Cloverleaf area Sunday morning after authorities said he brandished a pistol.

The shooting happened around 10 a.m. in the 400 block of Freeport Street after several residents called 911 to report a suspicious man. When police confronted him, about a mile away, he was armed with a gun.

“He pointed it at his head and started waving it around,” Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said, calling the shooting an apparent suicide-by-cop.

The man, who was not identified, yelled he “didn’t want to go back to jail,” Gonzalez said.

He aimed the weapon at the deputy, who then opened fire with about 10 gunshots.

The deputy was not hurt.

nicole.hensley@chron.com