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AP: Suspect arrested for the murder of Texas deputy officer
Texas investigators were trying to determine on Sunday what may have
motivated a 30-year-old man accused of ambushing a suburban Houston sheriff
’s deputy filling his patrol car with gas in what authorities believe was a
targeted killing.
Shannon J. Miles was charged Saturday with capital murder in the killing of
Darren Goforth, 47, a 10-year veteran of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.
Goforth had gone to the station in Cypress, a middle-class to upper-middle
class suburban area of Harris County that is unincorporated and located
northwest of Houston, after responding to a routine car accident earlier
Friday.
Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman said the attack was “clearly unprovoked,
” and there is no evidence so far that Goforth knew Miles. Investigators
have no information from Miles that would shed light on his motive, Hickman
said.
"Our assumption is that he was a target because he wore a uniform," the
sheriff said.
The killing has brought out strong emotions from the local law enforcement
community, with Hickman likening it to the heightened tension over the
treatment of African-Americans by police.
The nationwide "Black Lives Matter" movement formed after the killing of a
black man by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, has sought
sweeping reforms of policing. Related protests erupted recently in Texas
after a 28-year-old Chicago area black woman, Sandra Bland, was found dead
in a county jail about 50 miles northwest of Houston three days after her
arrest on a traffic violation. Texas authorities said she committed suicide
but her family is skeptical that she would have taken her own life.
Hickman and Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson on Saturday
pushed back against police criticism, saying there must not be open warfare
on law enforcement officials.
"We've heard Black Lives Matter, All Lives Matter. Well, cops' lives matter,
too," Hickman said.
Local law enforcement officers were worried after the Goforth killing that
others could be targeted, he said.
"It gives us some peace knowing that this individual is no longer at large
and that he wasn't somebody that would be targeting the rest of the
community," Hickman said.
Miles is likely to be arraigned in court on Monday. |
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