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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 11 OctOber 2017
Police received report of erratic student with weapon

According to Bonds, the students were ordered to
19-year-old wasn’t hand- shelter in place during the
cuffed while East was pro- search.
cessing the paperwork. Daniels was recaptured fol-
Another officer left the lowing a foot chase near
room and then heard a the police station. He had
loud bang. When he re- the body camera and a
turned, he found East mor- handgun, Bonds wrote.
tally wounded and Daniels Bonath said that during
gone. East’s body camera the lockdown, the univer-
was also missing, but his sity’s counseling center
service weapon was still told police that Daniels’
holstered. family had called to say
Bonath said Daniels “pulled he might be suicidal and
a gun” and shot East at have a gun. It wasn’t clear
the station, but he didn’t whether the chief meant
specify whether it was a they called the center be-
gun Daniels had on him or fore or after East was shot,
one that belonged to the and school officials didn’t
department. He also didn’t respond to messages seek-
This Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017 photo provided by the Lubbock
County jail shows Hollis Daniels, who was charged with capital say whether East checked ing additional details.
murder of a peace officer in the shooting of a campus officer at Daniels for weapons when Daniels, who is from the San
the school’s police headquarters on Monday. Campus police arresting him, and he didn’t Antonio suburb of Seguin, is
took Daniels to the police station late Monday after finding evi- take questions. charged with capital mur-
dence of drugs and drug paraphernalia in a room. The campus was locked der of a peace officer and
(Lubbock County jail via AP) down for about an hour is being held in the Lub-
By DAVID WARREN to killing Officer Floyd East Monday night and the bock County jail on a $5
Associated Press Jr. after his recapture Mon- school’s more than 36,000 million bond. q
DALLAS (AP) — A Texas day night.
Tech University student Campus Police Chief Kyle
confessed to killing a cam- Bonath said at a news
pus police officer who had conference Tuesday that
been booking him on a his department received
drug possession charge, reports of a student act-
telling detectives he had ing erratically who might
done “something illogical” have a weapon. University
and that “he was the one officials said East went to
that shot their friend,” an Daniels’ room to perform a
investigator said. welfare check and found
In an affidavit released evidence of drugs and
Tuesday, Det. Thomas drug paraphernalia. East
Bonds of the Lubbock city arrested Daniels and took
police department said him to the campus police
Hollis Daniels III confessed station to book him. q
2 women charged in killings

of 2 girls on Colorado farm

By KATHLEEN FOODY that she couldn’t comment
Associated Press on what led to the murder
DENVER (AP) — Two wom- charges.
en have been charged Police have said the girls
with killing two young girls were between the ages
whose bodies were found of 5 and 10. Investigators
on a Colorado farm. believe they were dead
The women were arrested for several weeks before
in mid-September along the bodies were found in
with three other people af- mid-September on a farm
ter authorities discovered outside Norwood, about
the bodies. All five were 30 miles (48.2 kilometers)
initially charged with fatal west of the ski resort town
child abuse.Prosecutors on of Telluride.Authorities
Friday added the murder have shared few other de-
charges against Nashika tails about the case that
Bramble and Madani Ceus. shocked the town of about
An attorney for Ceus, a 500 people. It’s not clear
37-year-old from Haiti, how any of the defendants
declined comment on are connected to the chil-
Tuesday. An attorney for dren. Authorities haven’t
Bramble couldn’t be im- released any details about
mediately reached. what caused their deaths,
A spokeswoman for 7th Ju- and affidavits in the case
dicial District Attorney Dan have been closed to pub-
Hotsenpiller said Tuesday lic view.q