Crime & Safety
Texas Lawman Among Those Injured In Mass Shooting
Former Victoria Police Chief is slightly wounded by bullet fragment during mass shooting in Vegas
SEGUIN, TX — The Seguin Police Department’s Assistant Police Chief was among the hundreds of people who were injured late Sunday when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock began firing indiscriminately from a 32-story hotel window, killing nearly 60 people.
Deputy Police Chief Bruce Ure, who has been with the Seguin Police Department since 2015, was slightly injured when a piece of one of the bullets Paddock fired into a crowd of 22,000 people attending the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival, hit him in the hand.
According to a KAVU report, Ure was staying in the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, and posted about his attendance at the festival hours before the shooting began. (Want to get daily news updates and news of other events going on in your area? Sign up for the free Houston Patch morning newsletter.)
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“I caught a piece of bullet shrapnel on my hand but minor,” Ure wrote on his Facebook page. “The shooter was 22 floors directly above our room. Rounds hitting the ground all around us. I am guessing 400-500 rounds. Maybe more. Sounded like a war zone.”
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The Seguin Police Department, located about 55 miles east of San Antonio, provided an update to Ure’s condition and said the deputy police chief would be back home soon.
“The Seguin Police Department shares its thoughts and prayers to those affected in #LasVegas. Our very own Deputy Chief Bruce Ure was at the Route 91 Harvest Festival when the horrific and tragic events took place.Deputy Chief Ure suffered a minor wound on his hand. He is safe and making arrangements to come back home to Texas. Thank you, everyone, for your thoughts and prayers to Deputy Chief Ure,” the statement read.
Ure, who owns the Ure Consulting Group, has more than 30 years in law enforcement experience, and formerly served as the chief of police and assistant city manager in Victoria, before coming to Seguin.
He began his law enforcement career in 1979, in the City of Missouri City, a suburb of Houston.
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