{"id":201,"date":"2024-07-06T20:11:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T20:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2024-07-06T20:11:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T20:11:35","slug":"an-investigation-is-underway-after-an-officer-involved-shooting-in-montgomery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/06\/an-investigation-is-underway-after-an-officer-involved-shooting-in-montgomery\/","title":{"rendered":"An Investigation is Underway After An Officer Involved Shooting In Montgomery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color\">By Lance Lowry              <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color\">July 6, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_0800-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Montgomery, Texas &#8211; In a press release the Montgomery County Sheriff\u2019s Office acknowledged an investigation was being conducted into an officer involved shooting yesterday around the 7000 block of Forest Hills Drive in Montgomery, Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At approximately 3:45 p.m., Deputies from Montgomery County responded to a crash involving an alleged intoxicated suspect in the area of Forest Hills Dr. Upon arriving Deputies attempted to locate the male suspect, who allegedly fled into a heavily wooded area to evade capture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the search for the suspect, it was alleged 27-year-old Tobias Sangster of Montgomery emerged from hiding and brandished what appeared to be a rifle, pointing it at the Deputies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Montgomery County Sheriffs Office Deputy discharged his firearm multiple times. The suspect subsequently dropped the weapon and was taken into custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was later discovered the suspect sustained no injuries from the shots fired and that the rifle was, in fact, a pellet gun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Montgomery County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Homicide and Violent Crimes Unit, along with Crime Scene Investigators, are conducting an investigation into the shooting incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sangster was booked into the Montgomery County Jail facing charges of Aggravated Assault on a Public Servant and Driving While Intoxicated. Sangster is being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $100,000 bond for the Aggravated Assault on a Public Servant charge and a $1,500 bond for the DWI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lance Lowry July 6, 2025 Montgomery, Texas &#8211; In a press release the Montgomery County Sheriff\u2019s Office acknowledged an investigation was being conducted into an officer involved shooting yesterday around the 7000 block of Forest Hills Drive in Montgomery, Texas. At approximately 3:45 p.m., Deputies from Montgomery County responded to a crash involving an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-montgomery-county-sheriff","tag-montgomery-texas","tag-officer-shooting","tag-tobias-sangster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}