Texas Police Officer Shot 4 Times, Expected To Survive
Houston, Texas (AP) -- A police officer was hospitalized after being shot four times Wednesday while trying to make an arrest.
Houston police spokesman John Cannon said the officer, who started with the department in September 1994, was hit by bullets in both legs, his hip and his side.
“The one in the side was deflected by his bulletproof vest,” Cannon said. “He was breathing and conscious at the scene.”
The officer was being treated at Memorial Hermann Hospital, where his condition wasn’t immediately known. The officer’s identity also was being withheld until his family could be notified.
Cannon said two suspects were being held as material witnesses and police were continuing to search for the assailant.
The officers were attempting to serve a felony weapons warrant at the southeast Houston home about 7:30 a.m. when the shooting occurred.
“When they knocked on the door, they were confronted,” Cannon said of the officers. “They backed away and at that time one of the three persons inside the residence fired several shots, four of which hit one of the officers.”
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Ariz. officer Shot in Gunfight With Stabbing Suspect
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- A Tucson police officer was shot in the leg after exchanging gunfire with a suspect in a stabbing.
Officer Jobe Dickinson was expected to recover from the wound to his lower left leg, police said.
Dickinson and another officer responded to a call Tuesday night about a stabbing. The 45-year-old stabbing victim identified his alleged assailant, who was still nearby when officers arrived, said police spokesman Sgt. Marco Borboa.
The suspect ran from Dickinson and the two exchanged gunfire. A warrant was issued Wednesday for the arrest of Adam Fulton, 22, of Tucson. He is wanted in connection with the stabbing.
The stabbing victim was taken to a local hospital and is expected to recover, police said.
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Two Officers Shot, Killed In Northern Spain
Madrid, Spain (AP) -- Two highway patrolmen were shot and killed in northern Spain on Wednesday when they tried to stop a car for a moving violation, the Interior Ministry said.
Officials said they did not know who was responsible for the shooting, which occurred in Navarra province bordering on the Basque region.
“We do not rule out any hypothesis,” a ministry official said on condition of anonymity.
Riding in a patrol car, the two Civil Guard officers had pulled up alongside a green Suzuki to order it to stop when they were hit by automatic weapons fire from the car, officials said.
The shooting occurred in the town of Castejon. One policeman died instantly and the other after medics tried to save him. Each was shot several times. The officers were 29 and 31 years old, the ministry said.
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Officer Down Follow Up:
Suspect In Officer’s Slaying Likely Has Left Michigan, Say Authorities
Sterling Heights, Mich. (AP) -- A suspect in the shotgun slaying of a city police officer probably has fled the state, authorities said.
Timothy William Berner has been sought since Friday in what investigators have called the execution-style killing of Officer Mark Sawyers, 30, of Warren.
U.S. Magistrate Mona Majzoub on Tuesday approved a federal warrant for Berner’s arrest. A state warrant was issued earlier for the 33-year-old suspect, whose last known address was in Macomb County’s Clinton Township.
“With this guy still out there, it hasn’t really given us time to reflect on the loss of Mark,” Sterling Heights Lt. Mike Reese told the Detroit Free Press. “And we won’t be able to do that until we get this guy in custody. Then we’ll grasp what happened.”
Police were receiving hundreds of tips and acting on a few of them, but without result. A Macomb County SWAT team on Tuesday morning burst into a Roseville house Berner was once known to frequent, but no one was inside. It was at least the third Detroit-area home searched since Friday night, The Macomb Daily of Mount Clemens reported.
Investigators said there appeared to be no motive for Sawyers’ shooting, other than that he was a uniformed police officer.
“As a police officer, there is no other goal in my mind than to get (Berner),” Officer David Allen, one of the first on the scene of Friday’s shooting, told The Detroit News. “As a person ... how could he take someone’s life with no remorse?”
Sawyers, who is survived by a wife and young daughter, died Saturday after being found shot the previous night outside a Target store. Police said a man fired a shotgun at him from another vehicle, then took Sawyers’ gun and fled.