Texas Deputy Ambushed, Shot 4 Times In Back Near Houston
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Source: CNN
(CNN)A Texas deputy constable talking to his partner was shot multiple times in the back -- for no obvious reason.
Harris County Deputy Constable Alden Clopton and his partner, a reserve deputy, were making a traffic stop late Wednesday night, authorities said.
After the driver was free to go, the reserve deputy was talking to her partner Clopton, "who was standing and talking to her through her open passenger window," Houston police spokesman Kese Smith said.
"She hears multiple gunshots and sees that her partner had been struck."
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/14/us/texas-deputy-shot-ambushed/
Texas Officer Expected To Recover From Shooting
HOUSTON (AP) -- The Latest on the shooting of a Houston deputy constable (all times local):
4:30 p.m.
The trauma surgeon who treated a Houston deputy constable for multiple gunshot wounds says the deputy remains in critical condition, is recovering "fairly routinely" and should make a full recovery.
Dr. Joseph Love says the deputy, Alden Clopton, has six wounds to his abdomen and chest areas but is doing "quite well." Love says although Clopton is in intensive care, he expects the father of five should not require any additional surgery.
Love also says he anticipates Clopton will be in the hospital for a week or so.
He's uncertain how many times Clopton was shot late Wednesday night outside a convenience store after completing a traffic stop but had "six areas of injury." He said some bullets were not removed because doing so could cause additional injury and leaving them in should pose no problem for Clopton.
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