DALLAS _ A Texas Tech University police officer was shot and killed Monday night at the Police Department's headquarters, prompting a lockdown at the Lubbock school that lasted for more than an hour as officials searched for the gunman.
Texas Tech police made a welfare check at a student's room earlier in the night and found evidence of drugs and drug paraphernalia, university spokesman Chris Cook said.
When they brought the student, Hollis A. Daniels, a 19-year-old freshman, to the campus police station for a debriefing, he reportedly pulled out a gun and fatally shot an officer in the head, Cook said.
He fled on foot but was captured when a campus police officer tackled him and took him into custody, Lubbock police said.
The campus was placed on lockdown as police searched for Daniels.
The lockdown was lifted about 9:30 p.m. after he was taken into custody.
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