2019

November 9, 2020
Gunfire @ 7900 block of the North Freeway (Interstate Highway 45 North) service road about 1:30 p.m

DOB –  10/9/1973 , Age 47
Badge –  Sgt
Class #165
Final Resting Place –  North Athens, Houston TX        
Military Veteran – Marine

Sergeant Rios was sworn in as an HPD officer in February 1996 and assigned to the Airport Division.

Sergeant Sean Rios was shot and killed in the 7700 block of North Freeway at about 1:30 pm while en-route to start his shift at George Bush Intercontinental Airport.

He encountered two vehicles and an armed man on the roadway and became engaged in a shootout with the subject. Sergeant Rios was fatally wounded in the shootout. The subjects in both vehicles fled the scene. The man suspected of shooting Sergeant Rios was arrested the following day. The second subject remains at large.

Patrol officers were dispatched to a shooting in-progress call to the northbound service road at the above address.  Officers arrived and found a Kia Forte abandoned on nearby Stuebner Airline and a male with a gunshot wound inside a nearby hotel.  Witnesses came forward and claimed that two Hispanic males had a confrontation with the male in the Kia Forte.  Witnesses told officers the driver of the Kia and the driver of the Mercedes fired shots at each other.  The witnesses claimed one of the Hispanic males fled the scene in a light blue Mercedes, the other male in a black Chevrolet truck.

It was determined the wounded male had walked to a nearby hotel at 7766 North Freeway where he was pronounced deceased.   Upon further investigation, it was discovered the deceased male was Houston Police Department Sergeant, Sean Rios

Sergeant Rios was a U.S Marine Corps veteran and had served with the Houston Police Department for 25 years. He was assigned to the Airport Division and is survived by four children, parents, brother, and two cousins who work also serve with the Houston Police Department.

Source – ODMP and Houston Police News Release