Texas deputy accidentally shoots dead his married father-of-six colleague while they were clearing out a house
- Precinct 4 Deputy Constable Caleb Rule was killed in friendly-fire incident early Friday morning in Houston suburb
- Rule and his colleagues were responding to a call about a suspicious person at a vacant house when Fort Bend County sheriff's deputy mistook him for intruder
- Despite wearing a bulletproof vest, Rule suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and died of his injury at the hospital
Precinct 4 Deputy Constable Caleb Rule was killed in a friendly-fire incident early Friday morning in a Houston suburb
A Texas deputy mistakenly shot and killed another responding officer early Friday while searching a vacant home after a neighbor reported a suspicious person in the area.
The shooting happened in the Sienna Plantation subdivision in Missouri City, about 15 miles southwest of Houston.
Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls said a neighbor called police at around 1.45am to report that someone suspicious was running in the 3900 block of Chestnut Bend. Fort Bend County sheriff’s deputies and Precinct 4 Deputy Constable Caleb Rule responded, he said.
Ten minutes after getting the 911 call, the officers came upon an unoccupied home with an unlocked back door and entered to search it. While clearing the home, a sheriff's deputy fatally shot Rule, mistaking him for an intruder, Nehls said.
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Rule and his colleagues were responding to a call about a suspicious person at a vacant house in the Sienna Plantation subdivision when a sheriff's deputy mistook him for an intruder
Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls (left) and his brother Precinct 4 Constable Trever Nehls (right) are speaking about the officer-involved shooting
Rule, who was wearing his bulletproof vest at the time, suffered a single gunshot wound to the chest.
He was airlifted to Memorial Herman Hospital, where he later died.
'What else do you say? You’ve got to pray for everybody — just a tragic, tragic scene here,' the visibly dejected sheriff said early Friday.
Sheriff Nehls' brother, Precinct 4 Constable Trever Nehls, struggled to contain his emotions while speaking of the fallen deputy, as seen during the press conference that aired on KTRK.
He said that before joining the constable’s office, Rule served as a detective at the Missouri City Police Department for 14 years.
Despite wearing a bulletproof vest, Rule (pictured with his wife) suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and died at a hospital
Rule leaves behind his wife and their six children (four of their daughters are pictured)
The deputy constable is survived by his wife and their six children, including five daughters and a son.
The sheriff's deputy who fired the fatal shot was placed on leave, as per department policy in deputy-involved shootings, and an investigation into the shooting was underway, Nehls said.
'We are heartbroken over this. We are praying for everyone involved,' Nehls said in a statement.
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