KTRE-TV News (Lufkin, Texas)
Huntington, Texas -- A Huntington Police officer has been shot and injured following a routine traffic stop Saturday.
The officer shot was John Logan.
According to officials on the scene, Officer Logan made the traffic stop when the occupant shot him twice, then shot the patrol car’s camera.
Other law enforcement then pursued the vehicle to a subdivision in Nacogdoches, where officers have the suspect surrounded.
According to police, 24 year old Sashi Kashika Roberts was pulled over by Officer John Logan for speeding in Huntington this morning. Police say Roberts also had warrants for his arrest. When Logan returned to the vehicle, Roberts allegedly shot Logan twice.
“The thing I heard is a gunshot one time, it seemed like it was another four or five minutes I heard a second one, a minute after that two more gun shots, pow, pow.” said witness Richard Bass.
Roberts then fled in his vehicle through Angelina County and into Nacogdoches County. Police say roberts turned into a mobile home park where he bailed out of his car and ran on foot through the woods.
Roberts was found in a nearby home and immediately surrounded by swat teams. Several explosions from tear gas canisters could be heard. About 4-o-clock this afternoon, the standoff came to a deadly end.
Sheriff Thomas Kerss with the Nacogdoches County Sheriffs Deptartment said, “Once the cert team made entry into the residence they did find suspect had taken his own life. I would estimate that he was probably in the residence a good hour longer before we made entry after the officers heard what appeared to be gunshot.”
Late this evening, residents were able to return to their homes. Windows at the home where roberts was held up, are broken and holes of tear gas canisters can be seen. Neighbors say they never expected this type of violence to occur so close to them.
Mary Murray a next door neighbor said, “It’s crazy. I never would have thought anything like that would happen, somebody taking their live next door to me and breaking in and killing a policeman.”
It will take several days for the tear gas to disappear, but neighbors say much longer to get over what happened in the peaceful neighborhood.