SEE IT: Texas deputy got drunk and firing shots at church, but escapes charges
Keri Blakinger
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, August 4, 2016, 3:40 AM
He's the half-naked cowboy.
A Texas cop isn’t facing charges for allegedly getting drunk, taking off half his clothes and firing shots at a church — all because he was mad about the police ambush in Dallas last month.
William Cox was fired from his job as a Somervell County sheriff’s deputy after he admitted to the boozy tantrum caught on camera on July 13, according to Fox affiliate KDFW.
That morning, Ovilla officers responded to a report of shots fired at an Ellis County church about 20 miles outside of Dallas.
When they showed up, they caught body cam footage of Cox, crying as he fires off a boozy tirade while wearing only shorts and sneakers.
In the shocking video,
Cox tells a responding officer he shot up the church “cause my boys are getting killed in Dallas,” referencing the ambush during a rally that left five officers dead just six days earlier.
He continued his tipsy tirade, telling the cop that “the black c--n start killing my boys.”
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The 27-year-old deputy was taken to the Ellis County Jail — where he once worked as a guard — and hit with a deadly conduct charge, according to the Dallas Morning News.
He was released the next day after the pastor decided not to press charges.
“He lost his career. He will never be back on the road as a law enforcement person,” Rev. Vernon Sansom told the Waxahachie Daily Light.
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