Former State Trooper Suspected In Deadly Texas Rush Hour Shootings
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Former State Trooper Suspected In Deadly Texas Rush Hour Shootings
A former state trooper who shot himself after a standoff with officers is the suspect in a deadly series of North Texas highway shootings, police said Tuesday evening.
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(December 23, 2008)—The suspect in a series of deadly rush-hour shootings in Dallas was a former Utah state trooper who shot and injured himself after a standoff with police, authorities said Tuesday evening.

During a news conference Tuesday evening, Dallas police said ex-trooper Brian Smith, 37, was responsible for at least one death that resulted from the shootings.

Dallas police declined to comment on a second death in neighboring Garland because it was outside their jurisdiction.

Smith is in critical condition at a Dallas hospital from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Before his standoff with police, two people were shot to death and a third was injured in four rush-hour shootings Monday along or near a Dallas-area highway.

Police said the victims appeared to have been selected at random.

A spokesman with the Utah Department of Public safety says Smith had been a trooper since 1996 but resigned in May because of "personal issues."

He was wanted in Texas on robbery and burglary warrants.

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Posted by: Don Location: Texas on Dec 26, 2008 at 03:29 AM

Well, he wasn't hispanic, but it appears that the truck drivers he was trying to and did kill are. Sounds like a vigilante vendetta to me. Too bad he came all the way to Texas and did this. He should have stayed in Utah.
Posted by: El Dorado Location: hell on Dec 25, 2008 at 12:16 PM

What does it matter what his race is? You are a racist not a texan.
Posted by: Someone Location: Near-Here on Dec 25, 2008 at 10:48 AM

According to WFAA-Dallas; This man is already dead by shooting himself in the head, and he had an alcohol, and drug(pain-killer) Addiction, and he was white, and about 40 years old!!!
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