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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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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.
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What does it matter what his race is? You are a racist not a texan.
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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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