One of thugs was dispatched with the taxpayer relief shot.
Via Dallas News:
A Fort Worth officer died Friday night, less than a day after he was was shot in the head when police confronted a group of men accused of robbing a bar.
Garrett Hull, a 17-year veteran of the department, was critically wounded and the man who shot him was killed when police tried to stop the robbery that occurred about midnight Friday, police said.
He died of his injuries about 9:40 p.m. Friday, police said.
“We’ve lost a true hero,” Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald said shortly after midnight Saturday. “Someone that has dedicated more than one tour of service to this great city was senselessly killed by three known criminals, two of which are in custody now.”
Hull, 40, was with at least 10 other officers conducting surveillance on a group of people suspected in a series of robberies around Fort Worth, Sgt. Chris Britt said.
While the officers were on scene, the group robbed the Los Vaqueros Bar in the 400 block of West Biddison Street, near Hemphill Avenue, Britt said.
“They bum-rushed the bar, told us to hit the floor. They had the guns out,” owner Victor Zepeda told KXAS-TV (NBC5). “And as soon as they took off I heard gunfire. A lot of it.”
Surveillance video obtained by NBC5 shows two hooded men run onto a patio where several customers sat drinking.
One of the robbers threw four men to the ground, pistol-whipping one of them.
The officers confronted the three suspects — all men, in spite of earlier reports that one was a woman — in the 3500 block of May Street. They fled on foot after unsuccessfully trying to get into a vehicle.
At least one of the three men fired at police, striking Hull in the head, authorities said. The officers returned fire, fatally shooting the gunman, later identified as Dacion Steptoe.
Two other suspects, Samuel Mayfield and Timothy Huff, were arrested in the robbery. They each face 10 counts of robbery and two counts of attempted capital murder, according to Tarrant County Jail records.
HT: Huck Funn