Texas deputy, set to retire in September, shot dead at home near Austin

Reuters

A sheriff’s deputy in Travis County, Texas was shot and killed on Monday after reporting to the department’s dispatcher that a suspected robbery was in progress at his home in suburban Austin, officials said.

Sergeant Craig Hutchinson, a 32-year veteran who was set to retire in September, was pronounced dead at a hospital in Round Rock, north of Austin.  

He had gone off duty a few minutes before radioing in the report that people had broken into the backyard of his home, the sheriff’s office said.

About 10 minutes after the call, deputies found Hutchinson near a creek behind his back yard with a gunshot wound, it said.

There was no indication of a targeted killing, said the office, adding there were two suspects but no one had been arrested.

Police in Dallas, Texas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, have been fatally shot in ambush killings this month by suspects who are said to have been upset over police shootings they believed were motivated by racial bias.

(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe and Bernadette Baum)

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-police-texas-idUSKCN1051MR

6 thoughts on “Texas deputy, set to retire in September, shot dead at home near Austin

  1. I’m sure the Round Rock Gestapo (police) did it. They enjoy ganging up and killing people. I guess their tasers weren’t working.

    So glad to be out of that Nazi territory.

  2. So…does he live alone or what?
    They already know it wasn’t a targeted killing?
    Compared to the other racially motivated targeted killing of police officers?
    The problem is because of their unchecked abuses and who they work for, if any of these shootings were actually legit, no ones going to believe it.
    I don’t doubt there are actually targeted killings of certain officers by various groups for various reasons.
    Take your pick.
    Then at the end of the article I see who the story writers are.

  3. “Sergeant Craig Hutchinson, a 32-year veteran who was set to retire in September,…”
    “There was no indication of a targeted killing, said the office,…”

    The retirement fund went ‘missing’?

    Regardless… BEST NEWS OF THE DAY!!!

  4. Excellent news. Once again we see that the pigs are usually quite helpless unless they have their gang immediately available to back them up.

    Of course it’s entirely possible that this was a revenge killing, carried out either by or on behalf of someone who was once victimized by that pig. Otherwise, just chalk it up to bad karma.

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