Kareem Atkins: Houston deputy killed in shooting had just returned from paternity leave, constable says
“Deputies Atkins, Garrett, and Barthen are true legislation enforcement heroes that have been cowardly ambushed whereas serving and defending their neighborhood,” Herman stated.
The capturing occurred round 2:15 a.m., after not less than two of the Precinct 4 constable deputies — working an additional job at 45 Norte Sports activities Bar — went outdoors to handle a disturbance, authorities stated.
“It seems it could have been a theft they have been intervening in … most likely unknown to them on the time,” Houston police Govt Assistant Chief James Jones stated.
Whereas the 2 deputies have been making an attempt to detain a suspect they’d on the bottom, one other particular person “got here from round a automobile with a rifle and mainly shot them proper there.” The shooter “got here out of nowhere,” Herman stated.
The third deputy “hears gunshots … runs on the market, and when he does, he would not even draw a gun — he is shot,” Herman stated.
Earlier, Jones, the Houston police official, stated all three deputies had been shot from behind.
Investigators are nonetheless looking for the shooter, and imagine he is a person in his early 20s. “We hope to have a suspect in custody quickly,” Herman stated.
