HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A former mental health officer is left with questions after a Houston Police Department crisis call turned deadly.

On Sunday night, Houston police said two officers were inside a store in the 300 block of Milam Street when a man, who was reportedly having a mental health crisis, entered the location.

Officers said they took the man outside and continued talking with him.

"They walked with him towards the street when they decided to go hands-on with him because the talking wasn't getting him the help that was needed," HPD Chief Noe Diaz explained.

Tuwana Johnson told ABC13 moments before officers went hands-on, she didn't notice any weapons.

"He wasn't threatening anyone, but he said he wasn't going back where he came from," Johnson recalled. "That's what I he

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