A Kaufman County Sheriff’s deputy and Crandall officer responded to a panic alarm early Saturday morning.
Authorities responded at an Exxon gas station along Farm Road 741 in Heartland at about 3:09 a.m.
Upon arrival, the deputy and officer encountered a male suspect in the parking lot. The suspect displayed a firearm at officers, and shots were fired, Crandall Police Department said.
Both officers were shot in the leg, and the suspect was also shot, according to a report from Kaufman County Sheriff’s Department.
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They were transported to Baylor University Medical Center Dallas with non-life-threatening injuries.
Despite life-saving measures being performed on the suspect, he was pronounced deceased at the scene. The officers were transported to Baylor Hospital in Dallas with non-life-threatening injuries.
The store's owner said his clerk initially alerted police after two women came into the store saying that the suspect had approached them with a gun. He says that they locked the doors, and everything else occurred in the parking lot.
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Investigators spent hours marking evidence in the gas station's parking lot Saturday, placing dozens of markers near shell casings and other remnants from the shootout.
Carnell McCurdy was one of several neighbors who stopped to watch while lamenting what he said feels like a rise in crime.
"About a year ago, I moved here. So maybe about four or five months ago, I started seeing a lot of different stuff coming to the neighborhood," said McCurdy.
"At this point, it doesn’t surprise me because there’s too much going on," said Sylvester Henderson.
Henderson also recently moved to the area from Pleasant Grove. He hopes the shooting serves as a wake-up call for his neighbors.
"You see it all on social media. You see it in the little Heartland groups that people are getting mad about it, and then something like this occurred with the deputies getting shot. At some point, is it going to raise some awareness? Is someone going to do something?" he said.
This investigation is ongoing and being led by Texas Rangers.
