Officer, gunman among 3 killed in shooting

Associated Press

COLLEGE STATION, Texas

A Texas law-enforcement officer attacked as he brought an eviction notice to a house was among three people, including a shooter inside the home, killed Monday near the Texas A&M University campus.

A 65-year-old man was the third person killed in the shootings at an off-campus home not far from the university’s football stadium, College Station Assistant Police Chief Scott McCollum said. Three other law-enforcement officers and a 55-year-old woman were wounded, he said.

Brazos County Constable Brian Bachmann had gone to the home with an eviction notice just after 12 p.m., McCollum said. A man in his mid-30s who lived there opened fire from inside, he said.

Officers responding to reports of an officer down saw Bachmann wounded on the ground in the front yard, then got into what McCollum described as an extended shootout with the gunman, who eventually was shot.

Both Bachmann and the gunman later were pronounced dead at a hospital. Officials did not say where the 65-year-old was shot or why he, or the woman who was wounded, was at the home.

The woman had surgery Monday afternoon, and one of the injured officers was being treated for a gunshot wound in the calf and was in stable condition, McCollum said. Two other officers suffered non-life-threatening injuries not from gunfire, but McCollum would not say how they were hurt.

The shootings prompted Texas A&M to issue an emergency alert warning students and residents to stay away from the area.