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COP SHOOT OUT 3:00 -l..
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eLtc I 4For Worth Police Officer Clayton made a routine
arrest early this morning, of two men and two women
sitting in a stolen car in Sycamore Park. He put the
two men in the squad car, and the routine-ness of the
arrest ended. One of the men pulled aa* and ordered
Clayton to surrender his Llayton refused, and the
man ordered his companion to take Clayton's gun. The
companion refused. Officer Clayton ducked out of the
car as the gunman fire ~ t his head, hitting the
He fired at
car, and nar-owly missing Officer Clayton. i
-f 1the gunman
U man as 31 = fled, then took his remaining threeprisoners to city hail, and
- .turned them over for inter-
rogation.
CAR DRIVES UP
An hour later, Patrolman C. C. Eagle spotted the gunman
in downtown Fort Worth. He attempted to question the
suspect, but like Officer Clayton, found t staring
down a pistol barrel. The gunman divested Officer Eagle
of his car, and his gun, and after ordering Eagle to
start walking, drove .off in Eaglets police car. The
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Cop shoot out], script, December 4, 1963; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc954334/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.