He leaves behind a wife and two children, including a 2-month-old baby, officials said. He is in the intensive care unit at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston, authorities said.Ītkins had recently returned to work from paternity leave, officials said. The officers were identified on the precinct’s Facebook page as deputy Kareem Atkins, 30, who had been with Precinct 4 since January 2019 and died of his injuries, and deputy Darrell Garrett, 28, who was employed at Precinct 4 since March 2018 and was shot in the back and underwent surgery.

Two of the deputies entered the parking lot and began to arrest a possible suspect when a second suspect emerged and opened fire with an AR-15 rifle, striking both, precinct officials said Saturday. Three Harris County Precinct 4 constable deputies were working an extra job at the club when they went outside to address “a disturbance” that “may have been a robbery,” Houston Police Executive Assistant Chief James Jones said during a news conference. on Saturday outside the 45 Norte Sports Bar in the Independence Heights neighborhood of north Houston, according to the Houston Police Department, which is leading the investigation. (HOUSTON) - A gunman authorities said shot three Texas constable deputies, one fatally, during an “ambush” outside a Houston nightclub remained at large on Sunday afternoon.

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