June 2020 Blues Issue Vol 36 No 6
June 2020 Blues Issue Vol 36 No 6
June 2020 Blues Issue Vol 36 No 6
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‘An absolute tragedy’ | Fort Bend Precinct<br />
4 deputy mistakenly shot by<br />
FBCSO deputy during burglary call<br />
Deputy Caleb Rule<br />
was shot after he and<br />
other deputies were<br />
attempting to clear a<br />
house after responding<br />
to a call.<br />
the Fort Bend<br />
County Sheriff’s<br />
Office<br />
responded to<br />
a suspicious<br />
person call<br />
around 1:45<br />
a.m.<br />
A resident<br />
called saying<br />
she saw someone<br />
running<br />
down the<br />
street who<br />
looked suspicious.<br />
The FBC-<br />
SO deputies<br />
entered the<br />
home in the<br />
3900 block of<br />
Chestnut Bend<br />
through an open back door, the<br />
sheriff said. The sheriff’s deputy<br />
mistook the deputy constable<br />
for a prowler and opened fire,<br />
hitting Rule in the chest. His<br />
bulletproof vest wasn’t enough<br />
to protect him. Deputy Rule was<br />
flown by Life Flight to Memorial<br />
Hermann Hospital, but he didn’t<br />
survive.<br />
Constable Nehls said the two<br />
agencies share a radio system<br />
and it’s not uncommon to answer<br />
calls together. It’s not clear<br />
what went wrong.<br />
FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas<br />
— The Fort Bend County community<br />
is mourning a well-liked<br />
deputy constable who was mistakenly<br />
shot by a sheriff’s deputy<br />
in the Sienna Plantation subdivision<br />
overnight.<br />
Precinct 4 Deputy, Caleb Rule,<br />
37, is being remembered as a<br />
mentor, a great boss, and a family<br />
man.<br />
“He was extremely dedicated<br />
to the job,” said Precinct 4<br />
assigned to the River Stone subdivision,<br />
Constable Trevor Nehls. “He was<br />
had an outgoing person-<br />
a devoted husband, a devoted<br />
ality and loved engaging with the<br />
father, and he spoke often of his<br />
community.<br />
family and his love for his family.ty<br />
“He had a love for the communi-<br />
he served,” Nehls said.<br />
Deputy Rule leaves a wife and<br />
Rule was a veteran law enforcement<br />
four children, ages 13 to 18. His<br />
officer in Fort Bend County.<br />
oldest daughter graduated from<br />
He had been with the Fort Bend<br />
high school Friday night -- not<br />
County Precinct 4 Constable’s<br />
even 24 hours after her father<br />
Office for nine months and served<br />
died.<br />
previously for 14 years with the<br />
“We are heartbroken over this,”<br />
Missouri City Police Department.<br />
FBCSO Sheriff Troy Nehls said.<br />
Both agencies came to be by<br />
“This is an absolute tragedy.”<br />
Rule’s daughter’s side, standing for<br />
Rule and three deputies from Nehls said Rule, who was her and her slain father.<br />
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