Officer, gunman killed in Texas shootings August 14, 2012 - 14:02 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - A routine serving of an eviction notice to a man living near the Texas A&M University campus turned deadly for Brazos County Constable Brian Bachmann when the resident opened fire on him, leading to the death of the law enforcement officer and another man before the gunman was killed, Associated Press reported. The spasm of deadly violence Monday, August 13 left a neighborhood shaken, a tight-knit law enforcement community in mourning and the family of 35-year-old gunman Thomas Alton Caffall anguished and "distraught by the havoc that he has caused." Just after noon, College Station police began fielding frantic 911 calls reporting shots being fired. Officers responding saw the 41-year-old Bachmann down on the lawn and also were taking gunfire. For nearly 30 minutes police exchanged shots with Caffall, 35. By then, Bachmann, a police instructor, one-time Officer of the Year and a married father of two, had been mortally wounded. So was Chris Northcliff, 43, of College Station, who was outside and apparently caught up in the gunfire. Partner news  Top stories Amy Elliott, chief administrative officer of the Oklahoma medical examiner's office, said 51 were confirmed dead. An Islamist insurgency, once confined largely to the republic of Chechnya, has spread across the North Caucasus in recent years. Earlier, at least five Azerbaijan soldiers were killed and six seriously injured when their vehicle rammed into a tree and overturned. Among its provisions are bans on child marriage and the traditional practice of selling and buying women to settle disputes.   Partner news |  Latest news “Wall Street and W” scribe to adapt “Three Graves Full” novel  The book follows a mild-mannered guy who happens to kill somebody he wishes he’d never met, and buries the body in his backyard.Park Chan-wook cult film “Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance” getting remake The film centers on two men who are bound by their common sense of loss and headed on a collision course of revenge.Russia to scrap world’s largest nuke subs by 2018 Six Typhoon-class submarines entered service with the Soviet Navy in the 1980s, and remain the largest submarines ever built.Syrian, Hezbollah forces fighting rebels in key town of Qusair At least 31 fighters from the Hezbollah group, a staunch ally of President Assad, have been killed in the struggle for the town of Qusair. |
