COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - Authorities said the gunman in a deadly shootout near Texas A&M University was fatally wounded by officers who responded to reports of gunfire.
College Station police Chief Jeff Capps said Tuesday that 35-year-old Thomas Alton Caffall III had "long guns and pistols" in his home when Brazos County Constable Brian Bachmann showed up to deliver an eviction notice Monday.
Capps said Bachmann was fatally wounded as he approached Caffall's rental home. A bystander, College Station resident Chris Northcliff, also died in the shootout. Police confirmed his age as 51 on Tuesday.
Police did not say whose gunfire hit the other victims.
Capps said he had no other details on the weapons found in Caffall's home. He said he wasn't aware of any previous law enforcement contact with the gunman.
A neighbor of Caffall said he asked him to apologize to the officer who'd been shot.
Rigo Cisneros, a former medic, told The Bryan-College Station Eagle that the suspect made that request as he lay dying from bullet wounds he suffered in a shootout with police.
A 55-year-old woman also was wounded and has been hospitalized in serious condition. Three other officers were treated for gunshot and "shrapnel injuries."
Officials at Texas A&M said Caffall was neither a student nor school employee. Police said he had been renting the home where he was staying.
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Thomas Alton Caffall, seen in an undated Facebook photo. (Facebook)
