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Story Created: Jul 13, 2009 at 3:13 PM CDT
Story Updated: Jul 13, 2009 at 3:13 PM CDT
MONT BELVIEU, Texas (AP) - A Southeast Texas deputy is dead after an effort to shut off the water at a mobile home was met with gunfire.
The fatal shooting Monday of the Chambers County sheriff's deputy led to a standoff between state and local law enforcement and a man holed up in his mobile home. A sheriff's spokeswoman says the gunman at the Tower Terrace mobile home park just east of Mont Belvieu fired on arriving officers and is thought to be heavily armed.
Spokeswoman Patti Jett tells the Houston Chronicle that a meter reader arrived at the trailer to shut off the water about 9:30 a.m. Monday when a woman inside the trailer fired at her. The reader managed to get to a neighbor's home and called for deputies.
The shooting scene is 30 miles east of Houston.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
AP-NY-07-13-09 1610EDT
Story Created: Jul 13, 2009 at 3:13 PM CDT
Story Updated: Jul 13, 2009 at 3:13 PM CDT
MONT BELVIEU, Texas (AP) - A Southeast Texas deputy is dead after an effort to shut off the water at a mobile home was met with gunfire.
The fatal shooting Monday of the Chambers County sheriff's deputy led to a standoff between state and local law enforcement and a man holed up in his mobile home. A sheriff's spokeswoman says the gunman at the Tower Terrace mobile home park just east of Mont Belvieu fired on arriving officers and is thought to be heavily armed.
Spokeswoman Patti Jett tells the Houston Chronicle that a meter reader arrived at the trailer to shut off the water about 9:30 a.m. Monday when a woman inside the trailer fired at her. The reader managed to get to a neighbor's home and called for deputies.
The shooting scene is 30 miles east of Houston.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
AP-NY-07-13-09 1610EDT