2015-10-02
Autopsy: Man shot in head during standoff
Posted: October 7, 2015 - 7:03pm
| Updated: October 7, 2015 - 10:16pm
Matthew Dobbins 100415 The Randall County Sheriff's Office has identified the suspect who died in an officer involved shooting yesterday as 29 year old Matthew Ray Dobbins. The Randall County Sheriff's Office and the Texas Rangers continue the investigation today into to the events that led to the shooting. No officers were injured in the incident.
By ROBERT STEIN
A man killed in an officer-involved shooting Friday died from a gunshot wound to the head, and his case has been ruled a homicide, preliminary autopsy results show.
Potter County Justice of the Peace Thomas Jones issued the ruling in the death of Matthew Ray Dobbins, 29, the JP said Wednesday. Dobbins also suffered gunshot wounds to the torso and buttocks.
Randall County deputies responded to a burglary alarm at 4:43 p.m. Friday at a home in the 14800 block of XIT Trail, Deputy Danny Alexander said.
Deputies had set up a perimeter around the home after determining a man, later identified as Dobbins, was inside.
Residents of the home, who were not inside at the time, told deputies there were guns inside.
At 5:24 p.m., the shooting occurred. Randall County Sheriff’s Office has not released details on what authorities think caused the shooting.
Dobbins was transported to Northwest Texas Hospital, where he later died.
No officers were injured, and two deputies involved in the incident have been placed on administrative leave.
Alexander declined to discuss details of the shooting, citing an ongoing investigation by the Texas Rangers.
“This is not going to be tried in the press,” Alexander said.
Dobbins had been booked into Randall County jail four times since 2004 on charges including drug possession, assault on a family member causing bodily injury and assault on a public servant, jail records show.
He was convicted in 2010 of assault on a public servant and felony assault and was sentenced to five years in prison, records show.
Alexander said the last shooting involving Randall County sheriff’s deputies occurred in 2005, when James Derek Taylor was shot while deputies were attempting to serve an arrest warrant.
Taylor escaped and was apprehended hours later.
He survived his injuries.
The use of force was later found to be justified, Alexander said.