HOUSTON: A man gunned down two people, including a constable, near a Texas university and was himself killed in the shooting incident, police said.
The three persons killed yesterday in the shooting near the Texas A&M University included Brian Bachmann, a Brazos County constable, apart from the gunman himself and an unidentified civilian, authorities said. A post on the city of College Station’s official Twitter page identified this third victim as a “civilian bystander.”
Assistant Police Chief Scott McCollum confirmed that two people have died following the shooting in a residential neighborhood near Texas A&M.
“It’s very chaotic. We ask the public to be patient,” McCollum said, describing the scene at the site of the incident.
Three others were injured in the shooting. They included two law enforcement officers and a female civilian who was undergoing surgery at a hospital, McCollum said. McCollum earlier said that multiple people had been shot in the incident, which occurred around noon just a few blocks from the Texas A&M campus. The law enforcement officers who arrived at the scene engaged the suspected gunman, eventually shooting him and taking him into custody, police said. Jason James, an officer with the Bryan police department, said “there is a possibility that it was an eviction.”
He said police started receiving 911 calls after officers had arrived 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 said. (AFP)