A Killeen Texas police officer died early Sunday morning after a shootout with a suspect who also died, police confirmed, as reported by WacoTrib.com. A second member of the Killeen Police Tactical Response Unit was injured in the incident that occurred at about midnight on Saturday evening. Both officers had first been reported in critical condition at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood.
The first officer who was shot by the suspect had been pronounced dead at 1:27 a.m. early Sunday, and the other got transferred to Scott & White Hospital in Temple. There he underwent surgery and was reported in stable condition as the day progressed.
The officers wee responding to a call to the Grandon Manor Apartments on Grandon Drive about 11:40 p.m. on Saturday as a man walked out of his apartment with a weapon, threatened people in the swimming people and returned to his apartment.
When police arrived, they found the man holding the rifle 'in a threatening manner' in his apartment, Public Affairs Officer Carroll Smith said. Tactical response office tried to speak with him who fired one shoot, and soon came to the door with his hands up but did not come outside.
When officers tried to arrest him, he backed into the apartment and picked up the AK-47 and began firing at the officers and struck two of them. Officers then returned fire and killed him.
A release by Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said an unidentified person found the body near the marina about 8:30 p.m. He did not say whether the body was in the water or on land. He said police know the identity of the deceased, a 21-year-old man, but are withholding it, until his family has been fully notified.
