Badges - Texas sheriff: Deputy killed; suspect shot dead
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- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:43:52 -0500
Texas sheriff: Deputy killed; suspect shot dead
© 2011 The Associated Press
April 24, 2011
Emacs!
An emotional Sheriff Bob Alford, left, stands
by as Texas Ranger Clayton McGee talks to
media at JPS Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas
about the officer that was killed in Venus,
Texas, on Saturday April 23, 2011.
The officer died en route to the hospital.
(AP Photo/Star-Telegram, Ron T. Ennis)
VENUS, Texas A North Texas deputy has died
after being shot in the line of duty in a small
town south of Dallas-Fort Worth and a suspect
also was fatally shot, authorities said.
Johnson County Sheriff Bob Alford said in a
statement that the shooting erupted Saturday
afternoon near Venus and that a suspect was shot dead by deputies.
Alford didn't identify the suspect or the officer
in his release, but local media outlets said
Alford later spoke to reporters outside a Fort
Worth hospital where the deputy had been rushed
and identified him as Clifton Taylor, 31.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram said Taylor, who had
been with the department for little more than
three years, had been shot three times in his neck, side, and back.
"I can't say enough what a fine officer Clifton
Taylor was," Alford was quoted as telling the newspaper. "He will be missed."
A supervisor at the John Peter Smith Hospital,
Anthony Vargas, told The Associated Press early
Sunday that a man identified as Clifton Taylor
was pronounced dead at the Fort Worth hospital on
Saturday evening. Vargas said the man had at
least one gunshot wound but he declined to release further information.
Alford had said earlier no further information
would be released as the investigation continues.
Tim Jones, the agency's spokesman, said in the
statement that the sheriff's office "requests
your support and prayers during this very trying time in our agency."
Venus is a town of less than 2,000 people,
located about 30 miles south of Dallas-Fort
Worth. Local reports said Texas Rangers would
take part in the investigation as is customary when an officer is shot.
Video footage after the shooting showed law
enforcement officers pacing about a shed in a
yard while an ambulance stood by and a crime
scene photographer worked at the site.
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