Deputy Andy Taylor died Monday in Brackenridge Hospital in Austin after his family said their goodbyes and ended life support, said Sheriff Nathan Garrett.
Taylor had pulled over a driver late Sunday, asked for his license and called a dispatcher to run a routine check. Soon after making that call, the driver shot Taylor and fled, according to other deputies.
Eric R. Wolfe, 30, who prison officials say violated his parole last month, was captured after an 11-hour search Monday and was arrested on an attempted capital murder warrant.
Wolfe was airlifted to Brackenridge Hospital with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, where he was in critical condition, authorities said.
Taylor, a three-year deputy who was to marry in about a month, was described as a dedicated, hard worker.
''He took his job very seriously,’' Garrett said.
Taylor went to Kingsland, about 60 miles northwest of Austin, because of a report of a car being driven recklessly without lights, Garrett said. It was unclear what prompted Taylor to stop Wolfe.
After the shooting, someone leaving a nearby mobile home saw the deputy lying still in the road, his patrol car nearby, and shouted for someone to call 911, one neighbor said.
Wolfe is on parole from Pennsylvania. He served five years there for robbery before he was released to be supervised by Texas parole officers in 2003, officials in both states said.
Wolfe obeyed the terms of his parole until April 19, when he missed a meeting with a parole officer, said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Mike Viesca.