One civilian, one officer killed in shooting outside Texas A&M University

One civilian, one officer killed in shooting outside Texas A&M University

Police say one law enforcement officer and one civilian have been killed following a shooting outside a Texas A&M University campus.

­College Station Police Department spokeswoman Rhonda Seaton has confirmed one person has been taken into custody. That person is believed to be the gunman, who police say has also been shot. 

Earlier reports suggested that the shooter was firing automatic weapons from inside a house close to the campus.

A Code Maroon warning was posted on the A&M website, warning students to stay away from the area.

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Three dead in shooting near Texas A&M campus, reports say

By Liz Goodwin

Police respond to the shooting in College Station, Aug. 13, 2012. (KHOU)

Three people, including a police officer and the suspected gunman, are dead following a shooting near the Texas A&M campus in College Station on Monday, police and university officials say. Four others, including three police officers and a female civilian, were wounded.

According to the College Station Police Department, the gunman was shot and taken into custody. 

The gunman later died, a police spokesman told the Dallas Morning News' crime blog. A male civilian also died in the "gunfight," police said.

The shooting began when an officer attempted to serve an eviction notice, according to WFAA-TV. Brian Bachmann, a 41-year-old Brazos County sheriff's deputy, was fatally wounded in the shooting that occurred shortly after noon about a block away from the school's campus.

"It appears that the shooter [was] shooting from a house with automatic weapons," KBTX-TV said.

The other wounded officers are being treated for non-life-threatening injuries, the police spokesman said. The female civilian underwent surgery Monday; her condition was not released.

Texas A&M issued an alert on its website just before 12:30 p.m. local time on Monday warning of an active shooter near Kyle Field, the campus football stadium.

The shooting occurred near Highlands and Fidelity Streets in College Station, just south of the George Bush Drive and east of the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum.

Monday's shooting comes a little more than a week after seven people, including the suspected gunman, were killed in a mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., and less than a month after a gunman opened fire at Aurora, Colo., movie theater during a midnight screening of "Dark Knight Rises," killing 12 and wounding 58.