Black Killer Fired 15 Shots into White Police Officer’s Back

USA Today
September 3, 2015

The man accused of fatally shooting a Texas deputy sheriff execution-style at a Houston-area gas station was arraigned Monday on a capital murder charge that could bring the death penalty.

Also Monday, Gov. Greg Abbott ordered Texas flags be flown at half staff to honor Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth, 47, who was shot in the back of the head after exiting the station’s convenience store Friday night.

“Texas honors our officers,” Abbott added in a tweet announcing his order.

In court, District Attorney Devon Anderson told Judge Denise Collins that surveillance cameras at the gas station in suburban Cypress showed a bald, black male drive up in a red Ford pickup. The man ran up behind Goforth and shot him in the back of the head, then several more times even after Goforth fell, Anderson said. Fifteen shell casings were found near the body.

“He unloaded the entire weapon into Deputy Goforth,” Anderson said. The truck was traced to Shannon J. Miles, and it was found at his home.

Miles, 30, was arrested the next day. Witnesses identified him as the shooter, Anderson said. Ballistics tests matched the shell casings found at the scene to a .40-caliber handgun owned by Miles, she said.

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