ALL IN THE FAMILY

I don’t know what it is about the children of police officers. Show me a cop with several children and you’ll probably find that at least one of them is all fucked up. One of my own children is an alcoholic and crackhead. Because we constantly come in contact with the dregs of society, could we be driving our children away by being overly protective and too strict?
　
LANCASTER OFFICER, DALLAS POLICE CHIEF’S SON KILLED IN SHOOTOUT
By Scott Goldstein, Tanya Eiserer and Rudolph Bush
　
The Dallas Morning News
June 21, 2010
　
LANCASTER – A police officer and two other men, including Dallas Police Chief David Brown's adult son, were fatally shot Sunday night at an apartment complex.
　
The 37-year-old Lancaster officer was responding to a report of a shooting about 6 p.m. at the complex in the 900 block of River Bend Drive near West Pleasant Run Road in southern Dallas County.
　
"Officers responded to the apartment complex and started looking for the shooter," said Kim Leach, a Dallas County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman. "At the time, the suspect turned and shot one of the officers, killing him. Another officer returned fire at the suspect and shot and killed him."
　
Dallas police officials confirmed late Sunday night that 27-year-old David O'Neal Brown Jr. was among the dead. It was unclear whether he was shot in the initial incident or in the officer-involved shooting. The other man who was killed was identified as 23-year-old Jeremy Jontae McMillan, the Dallas County Medical Examiner's office said early Monday morning.
　
The officer's name was not released late Sunday night. Lancaster Police Chief Keith Humphrey said the officer, a father of two, had been on the force for five years and that he was the department's first officer fatally shot in the line of duty.
　
"I just heard lots of quick shots – you know, like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, you know – that's all I heard," said River Bend apartments resident Pat Miles. "I jumped down on the floor."
　
There appeared to be three crime scenes in different areas of the apartment complex. At one scene, a vehicle was covered in blue tarp and an unmarked police car could be seen a short distance away.
　
A second scene, near a complex pool, appeared focused on a red sport utility vehicle. The third scene, at the rear of the complex, was centered on a white four-door vehicle that appeared to have crashed next to a Dumpster.
　
In 2003, David Brown Jr. was arrested on suspicion of selling marijuana in Waxahachie. He pleaded no contest and was convicted of a misdemeanor.