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DALLAS — A sheriff's deputy was killed Thursday after gunfire erupted while he was serving a warrant at a home in Central Texas, authorities said.
Sgt. Adam Sowders, 31, was part of a team of officers entering a rural residence east of the town of Somerville to serve a warrant, Burleson County Sheriff Dale Stroud said. He was shot as the team entered just before 6 a.m. and later died of his injuries.
One suspect was in custody, Stroud said at a Thursday afternoon news conference. The sheriff did not identify the suspect.
The warrant was served at a rural residence east of the town of Somerville, about 90 miles northwest of Houston, according to Trooper Jimmy Morgan of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
RENO, Nev. — Bypassing waiting patients, a gunman who complained he had a botched 2010 surgery opened fire with a 12-guage shotgun at doctors at a Reno medical office — a deadly rampage that investigators say was referred to in a suicide note.For the first time Thursday detectives provided a chilling, detailed account of how Alan Oliver Frazier of Plumas County, Calif., opened fire with a pistol-grip shotgun in the examination room area.of a urology medical practice.The 51-year-old attacker killed one doctor, critically wounded another, and seriously injured a 20-year-old woman with a shotgun wound to the torso, before shooting himself to death.“We may never know the suspect's exact motive or reason for his actions but there is indication that his focus was on the physicians at this specific office,” said Reno police.
