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Harris County constables salute the hearse carrying fallen Harris County Deputy Darren Almendarez during his procession at Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences on Monday, April 4, 2022 in Houston.As part of a series of videos spotlighting employees at the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, Deputy Darren Almendarez drove around the county earlier this year, talking about catalytic converter thefts.
Weeks later, Almendarez, 51, would be killed in the parking lot of a Joe V’s Smart Shop on FM 1960 in the evening hours. There, after shopping for his sister’s birthday gathering, Almendarez came out to find two individuals under his truck, according to deputies. He told his wife to hang back, then run. He approached. A gunfight followed. Almendarez was struck and so were two of the three individuals involved.
Almendarez is remembered by coworkers and friends as the one who would lighten the mood with a joke, show newcomers the ropes and check in on colleagues under stress. His wife “I miss him,” she says, drifting between grief and pangs of anger that the man who promised never to leave her is gone.His death, one of too many line-of-duty deaths this year, particularly resonates because it reflects the volatile nature, and potentially tragic consequences, of a crime that law enforcement, prosecutors and politicians have raised concerns about in recent years“I’m not going to stop everything,” Almendarez says in the video, “but I’m gonna do what I can do while I’m here.
Whatever legislation does result, it will likely bear the name of an individual who was known professionally as a dedicated officer and personally for his welcoming nature and love of family, including his 14-year-oldHe spent time as a patrolman, field training officer and investigator in the anti-gang unit, including time with the FBI’s task force before eventually moving to the auto theft unit.
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