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Dying words of College Station shooter revealed with cellphone video capturingchaos by Texas A&M
Thomas Caffall opened fire on College Station constable Brian Bachmann uponreceiving an eviction notice.AP Photo/City of College Station
Caffall was later shot by police. He and Bachmann both died of their wounds,along with 43-year-old civilian Chris Northcliff, who was caught in thecrossfire.
A cell phone video obtained by KHOU 11 News offers a rare glimpse into the chaos surrounding Monday's deadly shooting that occurred just blocks from Texas A&M University, taking three lives and wounding four others, including a Houston mom who was helping her daughter move from a house near the scene of the shootings.
In a brief video filmed by an area resident and former military medic Rigo Cisneros, police are seen swarming the College Station home of Thomas Alton Caffall, who fatally shot constable Brian Bachmann upon receiving an eviction notice. A 43-year-old male civilian — Chris Northcliff of College Station, the shooter's landlord — was also killed in the shooting, and four others were shot, including 52-year-old Houston mom Barbara Holdsworth, who remains in serious condition.
"I was asking him questions, like if he knew he was allergic to anything," Cisneros said. "He looked up at me and asked me to apologize to the officer that was shot."
After calling 911 when he first heard the shots, Cisneros took cover in an outcropping of bushes as his cell phone recorded police rushing to the scene.
"Put your hands where I can see them," shouts one officer in the video as he runs towards Caffall's house. "If you move, you are dead."
Although eager to assist, the medic was asked by police to keep at a distance until they secured the area. By the time he reached Bachmann, the constable was already gone.
"I performed CPR. There were no vital signs on the constable when I got there," Cisneros told The Bryan-College Station Eagle. "He took one clear gunshot wound to the chest."
The medic then turned to Caffall, who took several shots but remained lucid. "I was asking him questions, like if he knew he was allergic to anything," Cisneros said. "He looked up at me and asked me to apologize to the officer that was shot."
Caffall died of his wounds.
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