This all happened within the last 24 hours.
A 30-year-old Texas man faces capital murder charges in connection with the "execution-style shooting" of Deputy Darren H. Goforth at a Houston-area gas station, Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman said Saturday.
The suspect, identified as Shannon J. Miles, had been in police custody since early Saturday, even as authorities pleaded for the public's help in identifying the man who fatally shot the sheriff's deputy in the back in what was described as a "cold-blooded execution."
Miles criminal history includes charges of resisting arrest, trespassing, evading detention and disorderly conduct with a firearm, Hickman said.
The motive in the Friday shooting, which Hickman described as "senseless and cowardly," is still unclear, but Goforth appears to have been targeted merely "because he wore a uniform," the sheriff told reporters.
"We found no other motive or indication that it was anything other than that," said Hickman, adding that he doesn't believe the suspect and Goforth knew each other.
Hickman said "a big gun ... a handgun" was used in the shooting and ballistic tests on a weapon that was recovered matched the one used to kill Goforth.
Now some in law enforcement are thinking this might be similar to what happened to those 2 police officers who were killed in NY, however I don't think we really know enough to come to that conclusion yet.
The suspect shot Goforth, 47, while the deputy was filling up his patrol car at the station just after 8:30 p.m. (9:30 p.m. ET), Hickman said.
"Deputy Goforth was refueling his vehicle and returning to his car from inside the convenience store when, unprovoked, a man walked up behind him and literally shot him to death," he said.
Goforth was shot multiple times from behind and then fell to the ground, where the suspect shot the deputy multiple times again, said Deputy Thomas Gilliland, a spokesman for the sheriff's office.
Goforth, a 10-year veteran of the Harris County Sheriff's Office, died at the scene in what appeared to be "an unprovoked, execution-style killing," Hickman said.
"I have been in law enforcement (for) 45 years," the sheriff said. "I don't recall another incident this cold-blooded and cowardly."
Texas Deputy Gunned Down Execution Style
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A 30-year-old Texas man faces capital murder charges in connection with the "execution-style shooting" of Deputy Darren H. Goforth at a Houston-area gas station, Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman said Saturday.
The suspect, identified as Shannon J. Miles, had been in police custody since early Saturday, even as authorities pleaded for the public's help in identifying the man who fatally shot the sheriff's deputy in the back in what was described as a "cold-blooded execution."
Miles criminal history includes charges of resisting arrest, trespassing, evading detention and disorderly conduct with a firearm, Hickman said.
The motive in the Friday shooting, which Hickman described as "senseless and cowardly," is still unclear, but Goforth appears to have been targeted merely "because he wore a uniform," the sheriff told reporters.
"We found no other motive or indication that it was anything other than that," said Hickman, adding that he doesn't believe the suspect and Goforth knew each other.
Hickman said "a big gun ... a handgun" was used in the shooting and ballistic tests on a weapon that was recovered matched the one used to kill Goforth.
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The suspect shot Goforth, 47, while the deputy was filling up his patrol car at the station just after 8:30 p.m. (9:30 p.m. ET), Hickman said.
"Deputy Goforth was refueling his vehicle and returning to his car from inside the convenience store when, unprovoked, a man walked up behind him and literally shot him to death," he said.
Goforth was shot multiple times from behind and then fell to the ground, where the suspect shot the deputy multiple times again, said Deputy Thomas Gilliland, a spokesman for the sheriff's office.
Goforth, a 10-year veteran of the Harris County Sheriff's Office, died at the scene in what appeared to be "an unprovoked, execution-style killing," Hickman said.
"I have been in law enforcement (for) 45 years," the sheriff said. "I don't recall another incident this cold-blooded and cowardly."
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