Off-duty deputy wounds robbers at pizza shop in NW Harris Co.

New details have been released after an off-duty deputy wounded two would-be robbers during a shootout Thursday night at a pizza delivery business in northwest Harris County.

The shooting happened about midnight at a Domino's Pizza on Louetta near Stuebner Airline, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office.

Deputies said two masked men who wore gloves and carried guns entered the store and demanded money from the workers.

Deputy Glenn Shaft, who works at the store, was inside. He pulled out his gun and confronted the suspects. Then Shaft and the suspects opened fire. The suspects were wounded. Shaft, who works part-time for the HCSO and is a 25-year veteran of the force, was not hurt.

The suspects were taken to Ben Taub General Hospital. They were in critical condition.

The Harris County Sheriff's Internal Affairs, the Office of Inspector General and the Harris County District Attorney's Office will investigate the shooting.

"Generally we have a no-weapons policy in our stores," said Tim McIntyre, Domino's Pizza VP of corporate communications on Friday. "In Texas you have the concealed handgun law, but we ask people to not carry at work."

In this case, the employee was no ordinary delivery driver.



"What adds a different dimension to this is that when law enforcement are off-duty and they see something happening they are instantly on-duty," said McIntyre. "When this happened he stepped out of his role as a delivery driver and he became a member of law enforcement. It's his sworn duty."



The law, said McIntyre, preempts his company's own policy.



"We are grateful that none of our team members were hurt in this incident, and we are grateful to have had an off-duty officer on our side," said McIntyre.

Houston Chronicle reporter Craig Hlavaty contributed to this report.