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KHOU-TV
Following his battle with a rare form of cancer, Williamson County Sheriff Robert Chody tweeted Wednesday that 18-year-old Clayton Dalton of Round Rock has died at the age of 18. An honorary WilCo Sheriff's Office deputy himself, Dalton had a close relationship with the sheriff's office, as well as Chody.
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The Associated Press via KWTX-TV
An East Texas sheriff says a 14-year-old girl was shot and killed in her home and the suspected gunman was later found dead along a rural road. Jasper County Sheriff Mitch Newman said Tristan Dilley was killed Sunday at the home in Buna, northeast of Beaumont. Newman says the girl was found in a second-floor room with a gunshot wound to the head.
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Houston Patch
A man and a woman who appeared in a bizarre Snapchat video that showed them firing guns from a moving car along State Highway 6, have been identified and face felony charges of deadly conduct. Police are looking for 29-year old Michael Cuellar who was seen on Snapchat video firing a semi-automatic weapon from the driver side window while driving his car along city streets in west Houston. Sierra Tarbutton, 27, who was also seen in the video firing a semi-automatic rifle from the passenger side window of the car, was arrested Monday morning by Harris County Sheriff's deputies, and is the Harris County Jail without bond.
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WFAA-TV
It is an all-too-real and all-too-familiar scenario.
Two shooters have left people clinging to life on a public street, and the threat hasn't been contained.
It's the kind of situation Fort Worth Police's elite "Tactical Medic Unit" is ready for.
"If we've got an active shooter situation where we have casualties inside the building, we don’t have time to wait 15 or 20 minutes to finish securing the building to call EMS in," explains Officer Sean Romer.
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The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
A Garland firearms dealer who had sold handguns to Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock in 2010 and 2011 remembers him coming into the shop last year with girlfriend Marilou Danley. Paul Peddle, who owns B & S Guns, said Wednesday that Paddock didn't buy anything on the most recent visit but asked about a way to modify a gun to make it easier to pull the trigger.
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The New York Times
A trained sharpshooter firing from atop the University of Texas Tower in 1966 introduced many Americans to mass casualty attacks, but almost all of the large-scale shootings since then — including Sandy Hook and Orlando — have taken place at ground level with the gunman killing from relatively close range. One result: Even as mass shootings became more frequent and police departments expanded training on how to confront a gunman, officers were typically coached on close-quarters assaults taking place on the first couple of floors of schools, shopping malls and office buildings.
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Critical task model policies available to all county law enforcement operations through the TAC Risk Management Pool help reduce liability risks and lower claims exposure. MORE
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CU Anschutz Medical Campus via Medical Xpress
Law enforcement agencies and gun retailers can be resources to concerned families for storing guns to prevent suicide, according to a new study from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. It is the first to examine the extent to which these organizations are willing to offer voluntary, temporary storage - especially when a household member is in crisis - according to surveys conducted in eight mountain west states.
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Officer.com
More than 50 years after one shooter attacked from a tower, we experience another doing the same. Is there anything we can do about it?
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PoliceOne.com
What are some of the warning signs of suicide? Sgt. John Avery (retired) of the Salinas Police Department in Salinas, California, details some of the signs and the support system officers in crisis need to stay safe.
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We are responsible for the development and perpetuation of a professional and responsible work culture and performance. We are also responsible for the caretaking, maintenance, growth, and development of our most value resources, those officers and staff under our command. The growth and development of the agencies we lead are reliant on five processes that we must develop and sustain.
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