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Shooting near Texas varsity in US, three
killed
Tuesday August 14, 2012 08:59:16 AM,
IANS
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Washington: Three
people, including a police officer and the suspected gunman
himself, were killed and several injured in a shooting incident
near a university campus in Texas, media reports said.
The incident happened Monday afternoon near the Texas A&M
University campus in College Station city, Xinhua reported citing
local TV channel ABC13.
Police confirmed that 41-year-old constable Brian Bachmann and an
unidentified civilian male were killed.
The shooting occurred around 12.45 p.m. A resident of the area
said he heard about 30 gunshots. CNN said the entire ordeal lasted
around 15 minutes.
Another police officer was shot in the leg and a woman civilian
was also shot and injured.
Rhonda Seaton, a spokeswoman with the College Station police
department, told CNN that the three people killed were the
constable, the man authorities say exchanged gunfire with law
enforcement officers and an unidentified civilian.
The gunman was shot and taken into custody by police, according to
ABC13. Other media reports said the suspect later succumbed to
injuries.
An online report by the Houston Chronicle said at least six people
were taken to hospital.
The identity of the shooter was not known and the cause of the
shooting also remained unclear.
According to RIA Novosti, a police official told the Huffington
Post that two police officers were wounded, one fatally, by a
gunman inside a home near the university.
It was not clear why police initially went to the home where the
gunman was located, the police official said.
College Station police department assistant chief Scott McCollum
told CNN law enforcement officers responded to a "shots fired
call" and arrived at the scene and found the constable down in the
front yard of a home.
The officers "began taking fire... they defended themselves," he
said.
"They ended up shooting the gunman and taking him into custody,"
McCollum said.
He said it was still unknown why constable Bachmann went to the
address. But another officer, Jason James, with the police
department in Bryan adjacent to College Station, told CNN that
"there is a possibility that it was an eviction".
James said 911 calls began coming in after law enforcement
authorities were on the scene, rather than officers responding to
a shooting that neighbours told them about.
"It's not like a disturbance where they were actually dispatched
to it. They weren't responding to a shooting, but it turned into
one," James told CNN.
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