Emergency.
You have the headlights maybe?
I can't go this way, I'll be
alright. Did anybody else here?
Is anybody out of the JP 3 this year?
J P3 I didn't hear that.
Do you want me to hold that?
OK tonight. Sheriff's Office received
the information from the Office of
Inspector General of the TDCJ about
escapee suspect and murder suspect,
providing a vehicle information on
a vehicle that the suspect stole
in Centerville, TX today. Uh.
We mobilize our officers to the highways.
A short time later we received
additional information that
the suspect was in San Antonio.
So we deployed officers on all
the highways major highways.
And at later time tonight. An officer,
an investigator from Addison County,
spotted the pick up about
6 miles north of Poteet.
Hwy 16 southbound confirmed
the license plate number.
Is the pickup truck stolen in Centerville?
He followed it.
And so he could get additional assistance.
And he actually followed it to
almost in here to jourdanton,
at which time Jordan and Police
Department spiked the vehicle.
Flattening all four tires.
The vehicle turned on the spur up here
and then went out into a field and
got back on Hwy 16 and where officers
were in pursuit of it heading South.
The suspect stuck a rifle out of the window
of the truck and fired several shots.
He turned on this street here,
which is Cypress.
He went down there and struck a telephone
pole and bounced off of that telephone pole.
Went down the little bit further,
crashed into another telephone
pole in the fence.
He exited his truck.
He he fired additional rounds.
At least four officers returned fire.
At the suspect,
there were several shots fired.
No officers were injured and
a suspect is deceased.
Was there a high speed chase? Did the
suspect know that you were following
him? No, but the officer stayed behind him,
so not to alert the suspect
that he was being tailed until
we got close to Jourdanton,
where German the police spiked the
tires and then we did get in a
sharp pursuit from about the Exxon
station behind you right to here.
Sure, go ahead, go ahead. The
four officers who exchanged fire.
They all jourdanton PD,
or they sheriff's deputies or
they're officers from Madison County.
All four of them. Yes,
talk about what you found in the
vehicle and additional weapons.
No ma'am. Currently,
it's under investigation now.
The shooting and everything is under
investigation by the Texas Rangers,
and so I'm not going to
comment on any other details
what we found in the truck.
Anything like that.
I'm unable to comment on it.
At any point where the residents
that live in this community, which I
understand is a senior living housing,
or were they alerted or in harm's way?
We don't believe they were.
We checked with the residents afterwards
to make sure everybody was OK.
When the suspect pointed the gun
out and started shooting where any
other buildings or homes like that
hit to to your knowledge right
now. Not to my knowledge,
Chief Kaiser with Jordan police.
His officers checked with the nearby
residents and to confirm everybody was OK.
Also wanted in the five murders
in Central Texas today as well,
so we had good reason to believe
that it was a dangerous suspect
and why we took the steps we took
to not alert him to our presence
with the Department of Criminal Justice
and suggested he had some
ties to the sanitary San Antonio area.
Is that why you guys were sort of
on high alert waiting for him?
Or is it just standard procedure
after a bowl of you know I received
information from this officer here?
He's with TDCJ office of Inspector General.
He notified me of the escapee and
we received additional information
from the US Marshall Service that
he may be in the San Antonio area.
So then we heighten our alert and sure
enough we we spotted him about what
time did you guys heighten the alert?
I've lost track of time.
I couldn't tell you right now.
I don't know what time it is,
but like a couple hours ago.
So
what time did the shooting?
A couple of hour and a half ago maybe?
To talk about just this is a
dangerous individual already
wanted for serving time and wanted
for five additional murders.
Can you talk about just?
How scary it is for for this
to be happening so close
and for this to have ended.
It's so close
in our community. Well, yeah it is.
It is frightening to think that he ended up
right here in in our city and our county.
He is a accused of killing a family
of five today in Centerville, TX.
So right there tells you just
exactly how dangerous he is.
He was in prison for murder.
So he's serving a life sentence already.
So he you know he didn't want
to go back to prison obviously.
And and we knew what kind of person
he was and what kind of action
he probably was going to take.
Generally, after an officer
involved shooting,
DPS would take over the investigation,
but with this being prison system,
do you know if it's TDCJ or if
the Texas Rangers would come in
the Texas Rangers will handle
the shooting investigation?
Do you have anything to say this
happening in in your city limits here?
No, we we have an excellent working
relationship with the neighboring agency.
So this was a good example of.
How we work together to stop somebody
like this from causing any more harm
to anybody here or anywhere in Texas.
So I appreciate the the work of
our officers and deputies from the
Sheriff's Department and pleasant
and Police Department Highway Patrol.
Other other area agencies that
that joined in to make sure we
got this guy stopped tonight.
Any idea how many shots were fired?
Multiple shots were fired.
You know, I probably I probably
heard twenty shots myself and there's
probably more than that fired.
He actually started shooting
when he was still here.
On the highway. And turned here,
and he had the the rifle out the window.
So there was multiple shots fired.
Is the vehicle
down that ditch then in that area?
Yes, ma'am. It's about two blocks down.
All things considered, no
injuries seems as if it turned
out about as well as it could
have as far as you are concerned.
Far as we're concerned.
Yes, Sir, the this dangerous
individual is off the street,
and no officers were injured.
No citizens were injured,
so yes, it's it's.
It's a good evening.
What happens next and how long
will you guys be after? Well,
we'll be out here quite a while.
Some of my investigators
are assisting the Rangers.
Highway Patrol here is.
To assist us and their captain,
here is behind me.
So I imagine there'll be
officers out here for 2-3 hours.
I'm sure if the investigators
had had let you all know that
there were people that he
was related to in the area.
Is it known that he had made
contact with them before?
I don't have any information.
I don't have any information
about that, who he might
be related to in this area have
zero information about that.
Anything you want to add?
Sure no. Just glad it turned
out the way it turned out,
you know, and we'll just have to
go through the rest of it now.
Thank you guys, appreciate
it, thank you.