10-11-2017, 12:39 PM
Lubbock, Texas
Texas Tech police confirmed Tuesday that the officer who was shot and killed by a student Monday night was Officer Floyd East Jr. RIP. The announcement was made at a news conference by Texas Tech Police Chief Kyle Bonath.
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“It is with a heavy heart we identify the officer fatally shot last night as Texas Tech police officer ^ Floyd East, Jr.,” Bonath said. Officer East was married with two children.
East, 48, had worked at the university for nearly three years, first as a security guard in the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, Texas, Bonath said. He was later hired as a Texas Tech police officer on May 1 in Lubbock, Texas.
Police said he was married with two children.
East was killed Monday after police received information about a student who was “acting erratically” and reportedly had a weapon.
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Texas Tech police confirmed Tuesday that the officer who was shot and killed by a student Monday night was Officer Floyd East Jr. RIP. The announcement was made at a news conference by Texas Tech Police Chief Kyle Bonath.
“It is with a heavy heart we identify the officer fatally shot last night as Texas Tech police officer ^ Floyd East, Jr.,” Bonath said. Officer East was married with two children.
East, 48, had worked at the university for nearly three years, first as a security guard in the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, Texas, Bonath said. He was later hired as a Texas Tech police officer on May 1 in Lubbock, Texas.
Police said he was married with two children.
East was killed Monday after police received information about a student who was “acting erratically” and reportedly had a weapon.
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