Texas executes man who fatally shot Dallas police officer
Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas on Wednesday executed an inmate convicted of the fatal 2001 shooting of a Dallas police officer working as an off-duty security guard at a nightclub in the city.
Licho Escamilla, 33, was pronounced dead at 6:31 p.m. at the state's execution chamber in Huntsville after receiving a lethal injection, a prisons official said. He was the 12th person executed this year in Texas, the most of any state.
Prosecutors said Escamilla, then 19 and wanted in the killing of a neighbor in Dallas a few weeks earlier, got into a fight at a valet parking stand at a nightclub called DMX. Officer Christopher James and three other Dallas police officers were working as off-duty security in police uniforms.
As James and another officer approached to break up the fight, Escamilla opened fire. The officers returned fire but both were wounded, including James who had collapsed on the ground, prosecutors said, according to court documents. Escamilla was also wounded.
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7962
(11,841 posts)Shouldnt have taken 14 yrs to complete his sentence
littlewolf
(3,813 posts)he was not convicted.
I believe that every appeal is to be exhausted.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Officer Christopher James was a police officer?