You folks ready? OK, at 9:27 PM,
the 4th police finally received notification
that there was a Tarrant County deputy
who was found in a parking lot of the
100 block of Burnett Street downtown.
With significant injuries to his head,
officers responded immediately
there thereafter they were.
They arrived at the scene within minutes,
found the deputy.
It was apparent that there was
some significant injuries to him.
They immediately notified emergency
medical services to respond.
Since then, the deputy has since been
transported down to Harris Hospital.
He's still in the emergency room,
still being treated as of the the
last notification that we received.
Now the investigation is still
in the early stages.
We're not going to comment on any of the
specifics at this time because everything is,
is very preliminary.
I will answer a few questions,
but I would like to defer those
questions to Sheriff Wayborn.
OK.
Sheriff. Thank you. Sorry.
I know it's been a long night and always
the early reports are often, often wrong,
but unfortunately I am here to report
to you that Sergeant Keith Humphries,
a 19 year veteran of the Tarrant
County Sheriff's Office has passed
away at Harris Hospital at this time.
His family is there and we're
dealing with those things.
Fort Worth will be the lead
investigation agency on the what
happened out here tonight and we're
confident that it'll unravel soon.
And we appreciate your thoughts and
prayers being with the family and
with Tarrant County and the other
agencies that are working through this.
And I know it's late in the evening and but
I appreciate you guys being here as well.
I'll take just a few questions, but.
Well, ma'am, we're working a crime
scene and we're trying to unravel
it and see what is there and
what what it's going to lead to.
I would like to say that I don't believe
that any the neighborhood is in danger.
I don't believe that right now.
But what I do think is,
is that we've just got to follow the
facts until we understand what happened.
I that would be pure speculation on my part,
and we're not going to rule out anything.
But there is no, I've heard of no
credible evidence that there's a
danger to the Greater Fort Worth area.
We're focused on specifically.
It is the sheriff's parking lot and
sure Sergeant Sheppard had gone to
lunch and was coming back to his
duty assignment and did not show
back up from that duty assignment.
Yes, ma'am. And we're reviewing
everything that that that is there.
I wouldn't want to speculate on whether
he was armed at this time or not.
Identified that can community may be
able to help find this well I would say
that if anybody was in the general area
and they saw something to report it to
major Major Crimes at Fort Worth PD are
Tarrant County Sheriff's Office CID.
Well, I can tell you what I know about
Keith is that he had a great reputation
at Tarrant County Sheriff's Office.
He was a he was a strong leader.
He was loved. He.
It was a great husband and a good father.
You know. Pardon me?
I do not, did not know him well.
I knew him on appearance and you know,
in passing and in those kind of things.
Can you say with certainty that there is a
suspect in what's being done to track this?
I will tell you that that there is no
suspect defined at this point and I
what I can tell you is, is that that.
Fort Worth taking the lead on that
criminal investigation and trying to to
unravel exactly what will happen on there.
And everything is being reviewed.
Every angle that we can possibly do it.
Obviously you see there's a lot
of people out here tonight wanting
to make sure what happened.
Being cash sheriff in this city tonight
to figure out what exactly happened,
well, I would defer to Fort
Worth for the exact amount,
but you can see right here that there
are several blocks cordoned off
to make sure the integrity of the
investigation is holding steady. Did
he at any point fired him?
I, I, I don't know any of that at this point.
That there's going to be.
Well, he was found in his vehicle
with blood outside the vehicle
and inside the vehicle and
nobody knows what happened there.
And the officers that found him
immediately begin to do emergency
medical procedures on him and got
him to Harris where he passed.
Yes, Sir. Personal vehicle.
Yeah, he had gone to lunch
and was coming back. Someone.
That would be speculation outside
of of of evidence that I've seen.
We're just we're going to take
it one piece at a time and
and see if we can find that.
At what point?
Well, that would have been around
7:00 or 7:30 that that that would
have been going on I think is,
is what I've been briefed on.
His shift commander was was wanting
to check on things as I understand
it figure some things out.
Guys I I've gotta go head
back to the hospital and I've
got to meet the family there.
But I know there's lots of questions
and I don't have all the answers but
I appreciate y'all being out here and
and again I don't think there's an
immediate danger to the community.
We've got a large area of scoped off
and and things are unraveling and
we're figuring it out but thank you.
Shepherd.
Here shortly, we'll start emailing
additional information out.
But like I said initially, this is,
this is very early information.
All this information is preliminary.
It's all being reviewed.
We have our major case unit out here,
believe the homicide units here.
Did you look around?
We have quite a few officers out here.
So give us a little bit of time and we'll
start putting information out as we get
it. What time will you guys do another
briefing because all of us have shows,
new shows in the morning to update
the public as quickly as possible.
It's the best answer I can give.
Alright, thank you. Yeah.
Yes, officer Gomez. Hey, Ivan.
Yes.
Is anybody else going to need Spanish sound?
You'll need Spanish sound.
So what just happened? Step up here.
Is your microphone up here?
OK, we'll just leave it there.
They're calling you.
Let me get back everybody.
Let me start spelling spelling
of our victims name, OK?
OK, everybody ready? OK, Keith Shepherd,
Keith Shepherd, SH EP. ARD.
Yes, yes, maybe still have one more time.
Yeah.
SHEPHARDENOHERD. Excuse me,
I'm sorry. I need glasses.
ERDS, you guys anticipate another briefing
from here or just like the Sergeant said,
as soon as possible and it will be
right here? Yes, Sir. Yes, Sir.
We'll do all media briefings right here.
Do we know a donor, Mr Sherman? We will not.
OK. I apologize,
but thank you. Can you spell it
one more time? There we go. Here we go.
Keith shepherd.
SHEPHERD.
Sergeant. Sergeant. So you
Sergeant, yes. Thank you, Sir.
You're good on sound over here
in Spanish. Your shot here.