An officer was hospitalized and police were searching for one person after a shooting Thursday morning in southwest Houston, officials said. Officials with the Houston Police Department provided limited details about the shooting on Twitter, saying preliminary information was that someone had shot an officer from another agency and fled on foot.

Law enforcement officers line up to salute Brazoria County Sheriff's Office Deputy Jesus Vargas as his body is taken to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences from Ben Taub Hospital, after he was fatally shot while trying to serve an arrest warrant on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, in Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Brazoria County Sheriff's Office Deputy Jesus Vargas was shot and killed while serving a warrant on Robert Lee Davis.

An officer with the U.S. Marshal’s Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force was shot in southwest Houston on Wednesday. FOX 26 Houston's Damali Keith gives an update from the scene.

Houston police officials said the injured officer was brought to Ben Taub Hospital for treatment. People were advised to avoid the area while authorities searched for the gunman. In addition to Houston police and US Marshals,