Texas Tech Police Officer Killed on Campus, Student Arrested

The Associated Press
By The Associated Press
October 9, 2017US News
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Texas Tech Police Officer Killed on Campus, Student Arrested
(Texas Tech University)

LUBBOCK, Texas—Texas Tech University in Lubbock was placed on lockdown after a campus police officer was shot and killed.

University spokesman Chris Cook said campus police made a student welfare check Monday evening and, upon entering the room, found evidence of drugs and drug paraphernalia. Officers then brought the suspect to the police station for standard debriefing.

While at the station, Cook said the suspect pulled out a gun and shot an officer in the head, killing him. The suspect then fled on foot and remained at large before being arrested, Fox 34 reported.

In a statement, the university identified the suspected shooter as 19-year-old Hollis Daniels.

Texas Tech officials issued a lockdown alert to students on social media, noting that the suspect had not been apprehended. The alert urged those on campus “to take shelter in a safe location.”

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The suspected shooter identified as 19-year-old Hollis Daniels. (Lubbock County Detention Center)

Additional information was not immediately available.

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