Killeen City Council members Monday interviewed 14 candidates to fill the vacancy left by last month’s resignation of former Mayor Pro Tem Ken Wilkerson. Originally, the council was prepared to
The Killeen Police Department officer who shot and killed Patrick Warren Sr. during a psychiatric call on Jan. 10 is a decorated military veteran who served 16 years in the Army, including a pair of deployments, Army officials verified this week.
The police officer, Reynaldo Contreras, worked as a Patriot Launching Station operator and Avenger crewmember during his time in the Army, from 1999 to 2015. He left the Army as a sergeant first class and deployed to Kuwait from November 2011 to October 2012 and to Iraq from September 2003 to May 2004, according to the Army.
He served at Fort Hood between March 2009 and July 2015.
Contreras, a five-year veteran of KPD, is on administrative leave while KPD detectives and the Texas Rangers investigate the case, which is normal protocol for officer involved shootings.
A GoFundMe page to raise funds to pay for a local manâs funeral expenses is on its way to tripling its initial goal and thousands of people have signed an online petition calling for the arrest of the Killeen police officer who shot and killed the man earlier this month.
The GoFundMe page for Patrick Lynn Warren Sr., the 52-year-old man who was shot and killed by a Killeen Police Department officer on Jan. 10, has raised more than $57,000, as of Saturday. Its original goal was $20,000, and the goal later was raised to $100,000.
âMy father was the sole provider for his family. He had a life insurance policy but with the rise of COVID-19 he was let go from his job and the policy expired 3 months ago,â said Warrenâs son, Patrick Warren Jr., on GoFundMe.
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