Eviction notice leads to 3 shooting deaths near Texas A&M campus

Updated 7:52 p.m. ET

(CBS/AP) COLLEGE STATION, Texas - A Texas law enforcement officer attacked as he brought an eviction notice to a house Monday was among three people, including a shooter inside the home, killed Monday near a Texas university.

A 65-year-old man also died, while three other law enforcement officers and a 55-year-old woman were wounded, in the shootings at an off-campus home not far from the Texas A&M University's football stadium, College Station Assistant Police Chief Scott McCollum said.

Brazos County Constable Brian Bachmann had gone to a home with an eviction notice just after 12 p.m., McCollum said. A man in his mid-30s who lived there opened fire from inside, he said.

Officers responding to calls describing an officer down saw Bachmann wounded on the ground in the front yard, then got into what McCollum described as an extended shootout with the gunman, who eventually was shot.

Texas State troopers and Brazos Valley lawmen watch as an ambulance believed to be carrying one of their downed fellow officers speeds off to a hospital in College Station, Texas, Aug. 13, 2012.

/ Dave McDermand, AP Photo/Bryan-College Station Eagle

Both Bachmann and the gunman were later pronounced dead at a hospital. Officials did not say where the other man who died was shot or why he, or the woman who was wounded, was at the home.

The woman had surgery Monday afternoon, and one of the injured officers was being treated for a gunshot wound in the calf, McCollum said. Two other officers sustained non-life-threatening injuries not from gunfire, but McCollum would not say how they were hurt.

The shooting prompted Texas A&M to send out an alert warning students and residents to stay away from the area.

A witness told KHOU by phone that the suspect exchanged gunfire with police for several minutes.

Agnew said officers had established a perimeter around the area shortly after the shooting just east of the Texas A&M campus, but they do not believe a second suspect was involved. He said police don't know if the shooter was a student at the university.

The school had issued an alert on its website just before 12:30 p.m. warning of an active shooter. The alert warned residents and students to avoid the area, and was later updated with the shooter taken into custody.

Texas A&M spokeswoman Sherylon Carroll said most students were not on campus Monday. The fall semester does not begin until August 27.

"It appeared to be fairly quiet," Carroll said of campus. "It didn't appear to be a lot of people out and about at that particular time."

College Station is about 90 miles northwest of Houston. Texas A&M is home to more than 50,000 students, according to its website.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, an A&M alumnus, said at an event in Florida that his "prayers are with any of those that have been injured."

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3 killed in shooting near Texas A&M University

[WeHappyFew]

My comments appear to be delayed in uploading. Anyhow, as a response to those whose argument is, as always, 'criminals will kill so arm everyone' is that these shooting massacres are usually carried out using a legally acquired gun by a shooter with no previous criminal record.

Do you see how the gun may be part of the problem?

[payasyougo]

And the vast majority of victims of gun violence are unarmed. Do you see how that lack of a protective firearm might be part of that problem?

[WakeUpPeople001]

You're not the first person to observe "My comments appear to be delayed in uploading".

CBS's comment system is buggy.

[Greatnessgreg]

OK----I know the drill by now. Mourn the victims, release remembrance balloons, maybe start a bank account for the victims kids and then (this is the important part) stick your head in the sand like this never happened and repeat over & over again: "guns don't kill-people do!" Repeat process after next weeks shooting and repeat again the next week. Welcome to slaughterhouse America---thanks NRA!

[Greatnessgreg]

OK----I know the drill by now. Mourn the victims, release remembrance balloons, maybe start a bank account for the victims kids and then (this is the important part) stick your head in the sand like this never happened and repeat over & over again: "guns don't kill-people do!" Repeat process after next weeks shooting and repeat again the next week. Welcome to slaughterhouse America---thanks NRA!

[jt92202]

Eviction notice - Everyone is jumping to the conclusion that he was the owner of the home and it is being forclosed on. Eviction notices are used to remove renters not homeowners!! Please understand what you are posting before you post!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eviction

[WeHappyFew]

Please don't use the blanket phrase "everyone is jumping to conclusions'' before you read the posts below. Thank you but I understand perfectly well what I'm posting.

[lesserof2evil]

Now calm down, let our beloved repugnant Congressmen get back to the important business of Fast and Furious.

[WeHappyFew]

I'm getting pretty f*cked off with these comments about Banksters. It's only rental property, not worth taking three lives for. Possessions aren't worth taking a life for even in case of burglary.
I know eviction must be stressful and money worries can bring on mental illness but if there wasn't such a saturation in prevalence of guns, a moment of towering stupidity could be avoided.

This is what happens in a society that rates it's citizens how much they own, how monetarily successful they are, how much fiscal power they have.Those with less or nothing are made to feel like worthless failures, scroungers not entitled to an opinion.That creates an angry impotence in some who see their financial failure as complete disenfranchisement and that they have nothing to lose. Then they go postal.

[Rejco100]

Did the Bansters have the REAL HOME NOTE or one of those FAKE ROBO-SIGNED ONES?

[Rejco100]

The old man fought to the end to save his home from Bush's DIRTY BANKSTERS...

[Rejco100]

It's nice to hear a shoot is justified.

[AMisEnemigos]

People are going to kill each other regardless of any laws! The Libturds like to insinuate that antigun laws are the panacea to stopping violence? It hasn't worked in Mexico where guns are completely outlawed for the citizenry, so now only the criminals have them and the citizens are missing their heads! People should have the right to defend themselves and if the Libturds want to cower under a table or in a corner while armed criminals play God and do whatever their sick minds can imagine to their families, then that's your prerogative! These antigunners always talk about protecting peoples rights, except the rights of those who want to have the ability to defend themselves against like armed criminals who don't obey gun bans or any other laws! In fact antigun laws are criminal safety workplace bills where the criminal can safely operate without fear that a law abiding citizen will be armed cause they obey the law! I choose to have the option of defending myself and my family nobody can tell me otherwise.......

[WeHappyFew]

I think the point libturds, as you so delicately put it, make is that realistically most of the time a shooter goes postal one physically does not have the time or opportunity to defend oneself with a firearm. It behoves us to remember that Arizona allows concealed carry yet, contrary to conservative folklore, people in the vicinity were carrying at the Tuscon massacre.

[you_MAY_be_right]

"...realistically most of the time a shooter goes postal one physically does not have the time or opportunity to defend oneself with a firearm."

So happy, if that is the case, as you stated,, why do you want stricter gun laws for the law abiding citizen? The criminal doesn't care about the law anyway, so who would gun control benefit?

Can you say "the criminal"?