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A man authorities say entered a Kaufman Walmart Tuesday morning and fatally targeted an employee was also awaiting indictment on assault and kidnapping charges out of Gun Barrel City. ... While there were others within the store at the time of the shooting, the shooter specifically targeted the employee, said Capt. Fred Klingelberger. "At this time, we understand there was an ongoing feud between the subjects..." Henderson County District Attorney Scott McKee confirmed Coleman is the same man who allegedly pistol whipped and threatened a 50-year-old woman in January of 2015. According to a report from The Monitor, Coleman held...

Tyler, TX – A virtually unnoticed federal arrest here this Spring of a well-educated Pakistani man caught trying to buy illegal silencers, firearms and C-4 explosives has set off a nationwide FBI counterterrorism investigation, CBS-11 has learned. The investigation centers on whether Osama Haroon Satti, 35, came to Tyler on behalf of a terrorist cell hoping to arm for a plot to rob and murder wealthy Jews and other non-Muslims on the West Coast, sources familiar with the FBI investigation tell CBS-11. Satti is currently in federal custody on charges of buying an illegal silencer and handgun. Federal prosecutors connected...

10 years after Waco siege, police face another standoff 04/19/2003 By DAVE HIOTT / The Dallas Morning News GUN BARREL CITY, Texas – Sheriff J.R. "Ronny" Brownlowe isn't ready for a showdown. Not like the one 10 years ago a few miles outside Waco. On Saturday, survivors will mark the passing of a decade since at least 74 people died at the fiery end of the Branch Davidian siege. But for Sheriff Brownlowe's Henderson County deputies, it will only be another day in another standoff, now nearly three years old. Militant fundamentalist John Joe Gray, 54, retreated to his 47...