A physical confrontation at approximately 10:10 Friday night between Richard Dale Morris and Jessica Tullos at the Tullos residence on CR 2279 in mid-Liberty County sent Morris, by Life Flight, to Herman Hospital in Houston with a gun-shot wound to the back of his head. Morris’s condition was thought to be critical prior to boarding Life Flight.
According to Liberty County Sheriff’s lead Investigator Robert Dunn both Morris and Tullos were at the home of Tullos and drinking heavily. At some point in the evening a physical confrontation broke out between the two and that is when Tullos went to a closet and secured a rifle while Morris went outside and was standing near the passenger side of Tullos’s vehicle. It was at this point that Tullos shot Morris in the back of the head.
After the shooting, Tullos called the Sheriff’s dispatcher on 911 and reported the shooting at the same time she admitted shooting Morris and told the dispatcher where she had put the rifle.
At last report, Richard Dale Morris, DOB 2-19-62 was thought to be in critical condition in a Houston hospital and Jessica Tullos, DOB 10-1-73 was arrested on the scene and placed in the Liberty County jail on a charge of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon.
