Arlington officer shot sex crime suspect to death when he pointed handgun, police say

Emerson Clarridge
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An Arlington police officer shot to death a sex crime suspect who authorities were trying to arrest Thursday afternoon outside a shopping center when he pointed a handgun at the officer, police said.

Arlington officers assigned to a U.S. Marshals fugitive task force had stopped the man, who was alone and driving a vehicle, outside the Nam Hung Mall at the corner of East Pioneer Parkway and Browning Drive in east Arlington. The suspect “produced a handgun and began to threaten the officer by raising the handgun,” Arlington police spokesman Sgt. Michael Chitty said.

Task force officers, who are federally deputized as deputy U.S. marshals, radioed a patrol officer in a marked police car to stop the vehicle.

Two task force officers and one patrol officer were involved in the stop about 5:20 p.m., police said. One task force officer made a passenger-side approach as the other task force officer walked to the driver’s side. The patrol officer also approached the suspect’s vehicle. The suspect, a Hispanic man in his mid-40s, was in the driver’s seat.

He pointed a handgun at the task force officer on the driver’s side and the officer, a supervisor with 19 years with the department, shot the suspect. He was pronounced deceased at the scene.

Authorities had not released the suspect’s name late Thursday. Police said he was wanted in Arkansas on felony warrants on five counts of sexual assault and six counts of sexual indecency with a child.

No officers or bystanders were injured, police said.

Police said they did not know why the suspect was in Arlington.

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