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Update 1: Autopsy: Slain Cop Shot 33 Times in Ambush
05.14.2006, 03:30 AM
A slain sheriff's deputy was wounded 33 times during an alleged ambush by two brothers at a rural farmhouse, authorities said.
Autopsies were performed Saturday on the bodies of deputy Bill Jones and a friend who was riding with him on patrol.
"It would seem there were 33 bullet wounds in (Jones') body," Sheriff David Haggard told The Knoxville News Sentinel. "I don't know how many were entry or exit wounds."
Haggard said he had no information on the autopsy of the friend, Mike Brown.
Leon Houston, 47, and his brother, Rocky Houston, 46, are accused of shooting Jones and Brown as they pulled up to Leon Houston's home Thursday to serve them felony warrants alleging aggravated assault.
The deputy returned fire, but Brown wasn't armed. Rocky Houston was shot in the hip and wrist. He was arrested at a hospital and transferred to University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, where he was in stable condition and under guard.
Leon Houston was apprehended Friday after a full day on the run.
Haggard said the district attorney general's office recommended going to a grand jury in June for charges involving the slayings.
The Houstons are scheduled to be arraigned June 26 on the aggravated assault charges.
Their father said authorities have continually harassed his sons.
"They pushed them as far as they could," Clyde Houston told the newspaper. "They pushed them over the bank. You kick a dog so long, he'll bite you."
Court records show the brothers filed at least 15 federal lawsuits since 1991 against federal and state judges, police officers, clerks, attorneys and companies. Each petition claimed their civil rights were violated while trying to expose government fraud. All were dismissed.
The sheriff dismissed the harassment allegations, saying Jones was doing his duty as a police officer at the time of the shooting.
"We were just out to enforce the law," Haggard said, "and serve the warrants that were taken out on them."
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Associated Press
Update 1: Autopsy: Slain Cop Shot 33 Times in Ambush
05.14.2006, 03:30 AM
A slain sheriff's deputy was wounded 33 times during an alleged ambush by two brothers at a rural farmhouse, authorities said.
Autopsies were performed Saturday on the bodies of deputy Bill Jones and a friend who was riding with him on patrol.
"It would seem there were 33 bullet wounds in (Jones') body," Sheriff David Haggard told The Knoxville News Sentinel. "I don't know how many were entry or exit wounds."
Haggard said he had no information on the autopsy of the friend, Mike Brown.
Leon Houston, 47, and his brother, Rocky Houston, 46, are accused of shooting Jones and Brown as they pulled up to Leon Houston's home Thursday to serve them felony warrants alleging aggravated assault.
The deputy returned fire, but Brown wasn't armed. Rocky Houston was shot in the hip and wrist. He was arrested at a hospital and transferred to University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, where he was in stable condition and under guard.
Leon Houston was apprehended Friday after a full day on the run.
Haggard said the district attorney general's office recommended going to a grand jury in June for charges involving the slayings.
The Houstons are scheduled to be arraigned June 26 on the aggravated assault charges.
Their father said authorities have continually harassed his sons.
"They pushed them as far as they could," Clyde Houston told the newspaper. "They pushed them over the bank. You kick a dog so long, he'll bite you."
Court records show the brothers filed at least 15 federal lawsuits since 1991 against federal and state judges, police officers, clerks, attorneys and companies. Each petition claimed their civil rights were violated while trying to expose government fraud. All were dismissed.
The sheriff dismissed the harassment allegations, saying Jones was doing his duty as a police officer at the time of the shooting.
"We were just out to enforce the law," Haggard said, "and serve the warrants that were taken out on them."
Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed