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Customer fatally shoots security guard at DeSoto restaurant

Customer fatally shoots security guard at DeSoto restaurant
Customer fatally shoots security guard at DeSoto restaurant 00:36

DeSOTO, Texas (CBSDFW.COM)  A security guard at a DeSoto restaurant was fatally shot on Friday night after a patron began arguing with him over the rules.

The call came in at around 10:00 p.m. on August 19. Officers responded to reports of a shooting at the Brickhouse Lounge on North Hampton Road .

When they arrived police found the security guard, Derek Phillips, 47, of Arlington, had been shot several times. He was given emergency first aid and taken to a hospital, but he did not survive his injuries.

Investigators determined through security footage and witness statements that a patron of the lounge, Toussel Kuhn, 48, of Savannah, Texas, had allegedly shot Phillips after they began arguing about the establishment's rules. 

Kuhn was wounded by a bystander before he fled the scene. He was taken to the hospital for treatment after crashing his car in Glenn Heights and is now in custody on suspicion of murder.

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