Posted October 10, 2017 4:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

A shooting on the campus of Texas Tech on Monday understandably had everyone on high alert. Especially with the one killed being a campus police officer.

A Texas Tech University police officer was shot dead Monday after bringing a suspect into custody at the campus police headquarters, authorities said.

A call for a student “welfare check” led campus officers to a room where they found drugs and drug paraphernalia, prompting the officers to take the student to the station, a spokesman for the school said in a statement

University Police Chief Kyle Bonath said late Monday that the suspect, identified by authorities as Hollis A. Daniels, was being processed for jail on the drug evidence at the TTU police station.

“During this time, the suspect pulled a gun and mortally shot an officer,” Bonath said. “The suspect fled on foot and later apprehended by TTPD near the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum.”

Daniels allegedly ripped off the officer’s body camera after the shooting, but the camera was later recovered by police, NBC affiliate KCBD reported.

Democrats in the Lone Star State wasted little time in blaming the state’s campus carry law for the crime.

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Source:: Bearing Arms

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