Officer allegedly made threats

A Houston police officer is accused of threatening to carry out a mass shooting last week at his wife’s workplace.

Pedro Gonzalez, 45, told his wife he was going to “kill her and shoot up the whole building” during a confrontation Aug. 25 in the office parking lot along the 11200 block of the Katy Freeway, according to Harris County court records.

Gonzalez, a 15-year Houston police veteran, said he would “turn the place into a ‘meat market,’ ” the criminal complaint against him stated.

His wife told HPD investigators Gonzalez pulled up his shirt to show her he was wearing a police tactical vest with several pistol magazines attached to it. Gonzalez had two black semi-automatic pistols on his hip, police said.

“When (Gonzalez) displayed the weapons to her and threatened to kill her and her co-workers, she felt like she was in imminent danger and was in fear for her life,” the criminal complaint stated.

He was arrested at his apartment and charged with deadly conduct for making the threat.

Gonzalez also faces a felony charge for an earlier family violence case. Houston police said he threatened and assaulted his wife on March 7, during an argument in their apartment. She told them Gonzalez was drunk and would not let her leave.

She told them Gonzalez shoved a pistol in her mouth and told her he was going to kill her.

On Monday, he was being held without bail in the Harris County Jail for aggravated assault-family violence.

Gonzalez is assigned to HPD’s vehicular crimes unit and has been relieved of duty with pay pending the outcome of the case.