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UPDATED: Texas Shooting a Copycat of Earlier Mass Shootings?
Do you feel the recent shooting in Texas is a copycat of others happening throughout the country? Tell us why or why not.
Last week, Patch asked if you thought– one at a movie theatre in Colorado on July 20 and another at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin on Aug. 5– which left a total of 19 dead and 61 injured.
Now, three are dead after a gunman opened fire in a residential area near the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, TX on Monday. The three people killed include the gunman, a civilian and an officer.
Bryan (a community near College Station) Police Officer Jon Agnew said, "We feel the community is safe right now."
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UPDATE: The slain constable has been identified as 41-year-old Brian Bachmann, according to a report from CNN.
He had been dispatched to deliver an eviction notice to the now deceased suspect, 35-year-old Thomas Caffall.
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Two nearby police officers responded to the university's notification of an "active shooter" and found Bachmann down in the front yard of a home. After Caffall allegedly shot at the officers in his home, they shot him and he died as a result.
The third victim, a civilian, was identified as 43-year-old Chris Northcliff of College Station.
Patch asks:
How safe do you feel after this string of recent shootings? Do you think this shooting is a copycat of the two earlier mass shootings? Tell us in the comments below.
