Arrest Warrant Issued For Man Believed To Have Fatally Shot San Marcos Police Officer
Arrest Warrant Issued For Man Believed To Have Fatally Shot San Marcos Police Officer
San Marcos Police have issued an arrest warrant for the man they believe fatally shot Officer Kenneth Copeland Monday afternoon.
The warrant names Stewart Thomas Mettz (09/18/1966), who remains in an Austin hospital under medical care.
He has not yet been charged in the shooting death of Copeland who, along with other police officers, was serving a separate arrest warrant on Mettz at his home in the El Camino Real neighborhood Monday afternoon.
Copeland was fatally shot, and Mettz was arrested after a short standoff with San Marcos/Hays County SWAT. Mettz is currently hospitalized for a gunshot wound he incurred during the incident.
