Josue Daniel Claros-Trajedo allegedly shot five rounds at other choppers over the crash scene. HOUSTON - A 19-year-old man has been arrested and charged with firing a gun into the sky after a Houston police helicopter crashed on May 2, killing one of the officers on board. Josue Daniel Claros-Trajedo shot five rounds into the air around 2 a.m. shortly after the crash. Sources tell KHOU police believe the gunshots were aimed at other choppers that were over the crash scene. When Claros-Trajedo heard police approaching, he hid both guns in an air vent in his apartment, according to witnesses. Claros-Trajedo, an ILLEGAL immigrant, is charged with discharging a firearm in a metro area, tampering with evidence, reckless driving and unlawfully carrying a weapon. RELATED: TikTok video shows HPD helicopter spinning to the ground before crash HPD Tactical Flight Officer Jason Knox was killed in the crash and pilot Chase Cormier was critically injured with a broken back. There were reports of shots being fired before and after the crash and Police Chief Art Acevedo said six people were arrested. It's not clear if Claros-Trajedo was one of those six. He is currently held on $100,000 bond and an immigration hold. RELATED: 'Where there is great love, there is great loss' | Council Member Mike Knox mourns son who died in helicopter crash Knox and Cormier were responding to reports of bodies in a bayou but no bodies were ever found. The cause of the crash remains under investigation but Acevedo said the morning of the crash that they weren't ruling out foul play. The aircraft crashed shortly before 2 a.m. last Saturday inside the Biscayne Apartments in the 17000 block of Imperial Valley.
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