[marktwain]

No indictment of anyone, according to the story. That doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

You expect sense?

From what I read, I might have expected the officer to be indicted for something. But neither of the accounts (the officers or the barbers) add up completely.

It does not make sense that the officer went back to his car and got a firearm. The physical evidence does not support it.

On the other hand, the barber says the officer pulled a gun, then he shot the officer in the legs. Then he went into his car to make the 911 phone call, leaving the officer, with the officers gun, only wounded in the legs.

No one disputes that the officer, wounded, shot several shots through the car's side window, wounding the barber and the witness (barber's wife's cousin)

[DoodleDawg]

You expect sense?

Usually not from Texas, no.

[familyop]

"...then he shot the officer in the legs."

That was so nice. ;-)

Back in the early '90s, I knew a cop who lived by that...well, almost. He said that if he ever had to shoot someone, that he'd shoot them in the leg. I didn't know whether or not he was joking. He was easy to like, because he was funny anyway.

A few months later, he shot a gangster wanna-be in the butt. I still didn't know if he was serious about what he said, though, because he returned fire in defense with his concealed .380, just outside of a bar.

He blew under the limit and was determined to be sober. [He was a nerd.] .380s were most often the cheap kind back then and notorious for firing a little low. Most men tended to fire low in night fire anyway.

[bgill]

They all should be arrested, imo. Oh, for the good old days when these things were settled with a long horn honk and a one finger salute.