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Shootout occurs in courthouse
Wednesday
Police kill woman as she slips
handgun to capital murder suspect
DALLAS (AP) — A woman
who slipped a handgun to a capi
tal murder suspect was killed
Tuesday during a shootout with
a sheriffs deputy in the under
ground parking garage of a cour
thouse building.
The shooting happened at
about 8 a.m. as the prisoners
were being escorted into a van
for transfer from a county hold
ing area in the George Allen Sr.
Courts Building.
“It appears she just ran up
from nowhere and gave (a
weapon) to him. She could have
been hiding behind a car, some
thing like that,” said sheriff’s
Capt. Larry Williams. “... A gun-
fight ensued between the inmate
and the deputy, at which time
the accomplice was mortally
wounded in the gunfight.”
The female accomplice was not
immediately identified. The in
mate she tried to aid, Michael
James Jackson, was listed in fair
condition at Parkland Memorial
Hospital with a gunshot wound to
the right hand, hospital spokes
woman Yvonne Wilson said.
Deputy Bradley Maddox, 32,
was listed in good condition with
a gunshot wound to the right hip.
Another inmate, Clarence Davis
Jr., 38, suffered a gunshot wound
to the back and was listed in fair
condition, officials said.
Jackson, 20, was among a
group of inmates being taken to
the Frank Crowley Courts
Building. He was en route for
jury selection in his trial, Assis
tant Deputy Chief C.W. McKin
ney said.
Jackson managed to escape
briefly, but was caught just a
block away. McKinney said
Jackson had been handcuffed,
but freed his hands by the time
he was recaptured.
/ Maddox was the only deputy
assigned to the transfer opera
tion, McKinney said. “We
should have two but if we don’t
have the manpower we do what
we can do,” he said.
Assistant Deputy Chief Bob
Knowles said the incident illus
trates a lack of security.
“The security down here is
terrible,” he said. “We should
have some security that would
prevent members of the public
from having direct contact with
the prisoners.”
Dallas County Commissioner
John Wiley Price said a security
company was hired at a cost of
$400,000 annually to patrol the
Crowley and Allen court buildings
after a January 1993 shooting.
In that incident, Hai Van
Huynh fatally shot his spouse,
wounded a bystander and then
killed himself. His wife, Ly Thi
Dang, was seeking a protective
order and had threatened to di
vorce her husband.
Price said the security compa
ny was charged only with han
dling the building’s interior and
not the garage. However, the
Sheriffs Department may have
to reconsider the way inmates
are transferred or increase the
number of deputies assigned to
the duty, he said.
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Bret Ramsey, a senior economics major from
Angleton, looks at “Old Warrior,” part of Gerald
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Texas continues to take tremendous pounding from torrential rains
HOUSTON (AP) — Torrential rains
pounded southeast Texas a third straight
day Tuesday, sending already swollen
rivers and bayous even higher over their
banks and driving thousands more peo
ple from their flood-stricken homes.
At least eight deaths were confirmed
and two other people were missing and
presumed drowned. Late Tuesday, Pres
ident Clinton granted federal disaster
relief for 26 Texas counties, opening the
door for federal assistance.
Flash flood warnings and watches
were in effect for much of Texas. Little
relief was expected with forecasters say
ing rains, as much as 20 to 30 inches in
some places over the past two days,
would continue.
Three fatalities were confirmed in
Grimes County, two in Montgomery
County, and one each in Harris, Polk
and Chambers. The missing victims
were in Montgomery and Polk counties.
An estimated 10,000 people were
out of their homes and 30 counties
were threatened by floods. The Red
Cross had opened at least 42 shelters
for the homeless.
“Pray for these people,” Gov. Ann
Richards said after touring the Lake
Livingston area about 65 miles north
east of Houston. “There’s an awful lot of
water out here and a lot of people out of
their homes.”
“Cars were covered and in some
places we couldn’t see anything but
roofs. And the hard part is that the wa
ter continues to come.”
The White House also responded to
Richards plea for assistance by dis
patching Transportation Secretar Fed
erico Pena and other officials to Texas
to survey the damage.
“My thoughts are with the people of
Texas during this crisis,” President
Clinton said Tuesday in a statement re
leased by the White House press office.
“With the help of our team down in
Texas, I will continue to monitor the sit
uation closely.”
Richards authorized use of Texas Na
tional Guard helicopters to help with
rescues and Coast Guard helicopters
from as far away as New Orleans, 300
miles to the east, were summoned to the
Oklahoma subdivision northwest of
Houston near Tomball.
In Houston, all entrances to down
town from Interstate 10, the main
east-west freeway, were under water
at midday Tuesday. Other freeways
leading into the nation’s fourth-largest
city also had scattered blockages.
The disaster likely would reach
record proportions if the rainfall coi
ued into Wednesday, said AnStort,
ecutive director of the Harris Coe
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