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Houston Police Officer Comforts 5-Year-Old Girl at Protest

An officer with the Houston Police Department was captured on cell phone video comforting a 5-year-old girl during a protest last week.

June 8, 2020

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Texas Constable Mistaken for Suspect and Killed by Deputy

Officials say three Fort Bend County Sheriff's deputies and a Pct 4 deputy constables responded to a report of a suspect entering a vacant residence.

May 29, 2020

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Texas Officer Recovering Following Patrol Vehicle Crash

Responding EMS personnel placed a neck brace on the officer before loading him into an ambulance to be transported to a nearby hospital.

May 22, 2020

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Texas Officer Shoots Gunman at Scene of Vehicle Collision

An officer with the Plano (TX) Police Department shot and wounded a man wielding a rifle at the scene of a vehicle collision on Thursday morning.

May 21, 2020

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Off-Duty Texas Officer Saves Elderly Woman from Burning Home

On Sunday May 10, off-duty Lubbock, TX, police officer J.R. Wood, was returning home from working security at his church when he saw his neighbor’s house on fire.

May 20, 2020

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Dallas Officer Wounded in Gunfight with Felony Suspect

A felony suspect shot and wounded an officer with the Dallas Police Department before turning the gun on himself, inflicting a fatal wound to his head.

May 18, 2020

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Video: Texas Officers Dodge Out-of-Control 18-Wheeler on Freeway

A Texas police officer and two Texas Department of Public Safety troopers who were at the scene of a tractor trailer crash Tuesday afternoon had to dodge out of the way as a second 18-wheeler careened off the freeway and approached them at high speed.

May 14, 2020

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Man Who Killed Texas Officer, Wounded 2 Others was Illegally in Country

Police say DeLaCruz was an undocumented Mexican immigrant who had been in the U.S. since the late 1990s, officers found no criminal record for him.

May 13, 2020

Special Units

Texas Motor Officer Injured in Crash

An officer with the El Paso (TX) Police Department was injured Tuesday morning in a crash as he was attempting to perform a traffic stop.

May 12, 2020

Special Units

Teen Charged with Shooting at Helicopters Responding to Fatal Houston Air Unit Crash

A man was charged with two counts of aggravated assault on a police officer after he allegedly shot at two helicopters responding to the deadly crash of a Houston Police Department helicopter.

May 12, 2020

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TX Department Releases Name of Officer Who Died from On-Duty Heart Attack

The Alamo Colleges (TX) Police Department has identified the officer who suffered a fatal heart attack while responding to a shooting Tuesday night as Sergeant Lionel Martinez, a 21-year veteran of the department.

May 7, 2020

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Texas Sheriff's Sergeant Dies of Coronavirus

Sergeant Raymond Scholwinski died after a weeks-long battle with COVID-19.

May 7, 2020