A Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper is in critical condition after being shot outside of Mexia. The Texas Department of Public Safety Officers Association, an organization that represents commissioned law enforcement officers in Texas, identified the Trooper as Chad Walker. The incident happened around 8 p.m. in the area of US 84 and FM 2705. According to a Texas Department of Public Safety Officers Association Facebook post, Trooper Walker responded to a motorist assist near US Highway 84, approximately five miles west of Mexia in Limestone County. The association said Trooper Walker was traveling southwest on FM 2848 as he came upon a disabled vehicle parked on the shoulder of the roadway and pulled up behind the vehicle. “Before Trooper Walker could stop his patrol unit [the suspect] immediately emerged from the driver’s seat of the disabled vehicle armed with a handgun and fired multiple rounds at Trooper Walker through the patrol unit’s windshield,” the Officers Association said. Authorities say the trooper was transported to a Baylor Scott & White facility in critical condition. The Officers Association said Trooper Walker sustained a gunshot wound to his head and abdomen. Trooper Walker is also the new father of a 2-month-old baby girl. The suspect is at large. DPS identified the suspect as 36-year-old DeArthur Pinson Jr. DPS issued a Blue Alert for Pinson Saturday morning. He was last seen around 5:50 p.m. on Friday, March 26 in the area of Highway 84 and FM 480 in Coolidge, Texas.
DeArthur Pinson Jr. DOB 7/15/84 is currently wanted in connection to a shooting of a Texas DPS Trooper near Mexia, Texas. Pinson is considered armed and dangerous and should not be approached. Contact 911 immediately with any information on his whereabouts. Pinson was arrested in February 2006 for aggravated robbery. He was sentenced to 10-years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in November 2007. He was released in February 2015. He was then arrested by Palestine Police in September 2017 for criminal trespass.
