Update: Cop Shooter Shoots Self

An update on yesterday’s Blue Alert story:

MEXIA, Texas (KWTX) – DeArthur Pinson Jr., 37, wanted in connection to the shooting of Texas DPS Trooper Chad Walker near Mexia, has killed himself, according to Limestone County Judge Richard Duncan.

Duncan was quoted in a social media post from the Mclennan County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday night.

The shooting happened on Highway 84 shortly before 8 p.m. Friday. On Saturday, the Texas Department of Public Safety Officers Association identified Walker as the trooper shot by the suspect.

The wounded state trooper was listed in critical condition Friday night, according to DPS Sergeant Ryan Howard.

Evidently the asshole who just killed himself shot Trooper Walker for stopping to try and help him:

The officer’s association said the trooper was called to a motorist assist on FM2848, where a vehicle was disabled on the side of the highway.

As Walker started to pull behind the stopped vehicle, the association said a man got out of the driver’s side and began to shoot multiple times into the patrol unit’s windshield. Walker was shot in the head and the abdomen.

The man grabbed a backpack from the vehicle and fled on foot, the association said.

Evidently Pinson never left Mexia:

#Update Wanted suspect DeAuthur Pinson Jr barricaded himself in a Mexia home before committing suicide by gunshot. Trooper Walker remains in critical condition in a Waco hospital. pic.twitter.com/8ze7vXeKxu

— FOX4Terry (@FOX4Terry) March 28, 2021

Last reports still had Trooper Walker in critical condition.