A suburban Houston police officer who was ambushed at a gas station was shot 15 times, Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson said in court Monday.
Shannon J. Miles appeared briefly in state District Court in handcuffs and shackles and said very little, other than to answer the judge’s questions. He is being held without bond and was appointed two attorneys.
Anderson read the probable cause statement during the hearing, saying that police received a call of an officer down at 8:20 p.m. Friday. When police arrived at the gas station in the Houston suburb of Cypress, they found Deputy Darren Goforth face-down.
Goforth, 47, was shot 15 times, Anderson said, adding that the suspect “unloaded the entire pistol into Deputy Goforth.” She also said a witness saw the shooting and that the shell casings match the .40-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun found at Miles’ home.
by Associated Press