On August 13, 2012, a local constable was shot and killed in College Station, Texas, by the man to whom he was serving a legal notice.
[2][3] The shooting began near Texas A&M University around 12:30 p.m.[4] when 41-year-old Brazos County Constable Brian Bachmann arrived at the house of Thomas Caffall with the intention to serve a notice for him to appear in court on August 23 due to a failure to pay $1,250 in back rent.
Caffall apparently became outraged by this and opened fire as the officer approached his home, fatally wounding Bachmann.
He then stole Bachmann's .40-caliber SIG Sauer P226 pistol and also shot and injured 51-year-old Barbara Holdsworth as she parked her vehicle in a driveway half a block from Caffall's home.
[1] Numerous officers arrived at the scene at 12:14 p.m. and engaged in a shootout with Caffall that lasted for approximately thirty minutes.
[10] Caffall's stepfather, Richard Weaver, revealed in an interview that his son was recently refusing to work and had quit his job nine months prior to the shooting.