DPS TROOPER SHOT DURING TRAFFIC STOP NOW ON LIFE SUPPORT, WILL DONATE ORGANS
(Texas DPS)
The Texas Department of Public Safety says a DPS Trooper who was shot multiple times Friday night near Mexia no longer shows signs of viable brain activity.
Trooper Chad Walker will remain on life support until he can donate his organs.
DPS said in a statement on social media that “this final sacrifice embodies Trooper Walker’s actions throughout his life and service as a Texas Highway Patrol Trooper.”
Walker was hospitalized Friday night in critical condition at Baylor Scott and White in Waco after being shot in the head and abdomen while responding to a motorist assist call near Highway 84. A manhunt ensued for the suspected shooter, 36-year-old DeArthur Pinson, Jr., whose body was found Saturday at a home west of Mexia with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
(Texas DPS)
Walker and his wife, according to the Texas DPS Officers Association, have a 15-year-old son, twin seven-year-old daughters, and a two-month-old daughter.
A GoFundMe was started to help Walker’s family with expenses. The Limestone County Fair is also raising money for his family.
This is so sad. Where’s the uprising about this. One of our finest gone and I don’t see any protest. Maybe we should start. Our law enforcement officers do not need to be done this way. Not at all.