Steve Perez, a 34-year Houston police officer, drowned in his patrol car in Harvey floodwaters, a tearful Chief Art Acevedo said Tuesday afternoon.
Perez, days shy of his 61st birthday, was in his patrol car driving to work when he got trapped in high water.
Perez left home at 4 a.m. and spent more than two hours trying to get to his duty station in downtown Houston. When he could not find a path, he followed department protocol and tried to report to the nearest station, in Kingwood.
Acevedo, with tears in his eyes, said officers believed they had found Perez on Monday night but could not recover his body.
He is survived by his son and daughter and his wife, Cheryl, who told him not to go into work in the heavy rains.
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