Search underway for suspect in fatal shooting of Texas deputy: 'Brutal murder'

Texas deputy gunned down during traffic stopA search was on Sunday for a man who gunned down a Texas constable deputy with what investigators described as an "assault-type weapon" during a traffic stop near Houston.Cpl. Charles Galloway, 47, of the Harris County Constable Precinct 5 office was shot multiple times while still seated in his patrol car and reportedly had no time to defend himself when the motorist he stopped got out of his car and opened fire without warning, authorities said."He was brutally murdered," Precinct 5 Constable Ted Heap said during a news conference early Sunday outside the Houston Hospital where Galloway was pronounced dead.The shooting started about 12:45 a.m. Sunday when Galloway, a training officer, pulled over a newer-model white Toyota Avalon in a residential neighborhood of southwest Houston, according to Houston Police Chief Troy Finner."Witnesses described the suspect as a Hispanic male and said that he got out of his vehicle and immediately fired upon the deputy multiple times, striking him and then drove off," said Finner, adding that witnesses told investigators that the suspect was wielding an "assault-type weapon."Heap added that Galloway "did not have an opportunity to respond or even defend himself with this brutal attack."The gunman remained on the run Sunday and was the subject of a statewide search.The deadly episode came during a string of law enforcement officer deaths in-the-line duty nationwide.