texas lawyer killed in shoot out

An attorney, Michael Schmidt, was shot and killed by police on Thursday. Schmidt called the police to report a burglary at his home. When responding officers arrived, the lawyer barricaded himself in the hallway of his luxury apartment building and began to fire shots at the cops. Authorities do not know what caused Schmidt to engage in a shoot out, but say he appeared to be mentally altered before getting fatally shot. To see news footage of this story, click below.

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