Tragedy Strikes West Texas as two dead bodies found by the police

HOUSTON: A police officer was killed and one other officer was wounded early on Saturday in a shooting , authorities said. Two other people were also later discovered dead inside a residence in Austin, according to interim Police Chief Robin Henderson.

An emotional Henderson, who paused often during a news conference and appeared to be choking back tears, said officers were called to the home shortly before 3 am on Saturday by a woman screaming that she was being stabbed.

One person escaped the home before officers arrived, Henderson said, and told police the man in the home was armed with a knife.

Police then tried to enter the home and were met with gunfire, but did not return fire, retreated and called for a SWAT team, said Henderson, who did not take questions and was surrounded by about 10 other officers during her comments.

“SWAT officers arrived on scene and forced entry into the residence … to rescue the victims,” Henderson said. “As SWAT officers entered the suspect immediately fired his gun at the officers and the SWAT officers returned fire.”

Two officers and the suspect were struck by the gunfire with the suspect being killed at the scene and the two officers taken to a hospital, where one died and the second was in stable condition, Henderson said.

“Two apparent victims of the suspect were located inside of the residence with fatal injuries” and were dead at the scene, Henderson said.