Cop Shooting Suspect Charged

Suspect Expected to Survive

Updated: Friday, 21 Aug 2009, 10:39 PM CDT

Published : Friday, 21 Aug 2009, 6:43 AM CDT

DOUG DELONY

PASADENA, Texas - Capital murder and assault with a deadly weapon charges were filed against a man accused of fatally shooting a Pasadena police officer at a mobile home community Friday morning.

A spokesman for the Pasadena Police Department identified the fallen officer as 29-year-old Jesse Hamilton -- a husband with two kids. The suspect, 24-year-old Sergio Robles, also was shot but is expected to survive.

The shooting happened after Hamilton responded to a domestic disturbance call at a mobile home on Queens at Shaver early Friday morning.

Robles and his common-law wife had been fighting, and as Hamilton was talking to Robles' mom, Robles allegedly came out of a room armed with a gun and shot Hamilton once in the head, officials said.

Robles then allegedly walked out of the house with the gun in hand, officials said. One of the other officers who also had responded to the scene then shot Robles in the head.

Aerial views of the scene from SkyFox showed emergency crews performing CPR on Hamilton.

Both men were transported via LifeFlight to a hospital, where Hamilton was pronounced dead.

Robles is now charged with capital murder and assault with a deadly weapon because he allegedly pointed a weapon at a second officer, officials said.

At a news conference Friday evening, Ginny Ginn Wagner, who lost her husband, Pasadena police officer Jeff Ginn, back in 1991 in the line of duty, spoke to the media about Hamilton's death.

"When something unfortunate like this happens it all comes back."

She knows what Hamilton's family must be going through.

"Probably just disbelief, I'm sure part of it is not realizing it's real," she said.

Officials have not disclosed who shot Robles.

"I think most any officer will tell you that the domestic disturbance creates in the mind of an officer the highest level of vigilance," said Pasadena Police Chief Bud Corbett. "In this particular case, what we were told originally was that the suspect did not have a gun."

Police did not let FOX 26 interview two visibly upset women at the scene, one of whom suggested Robles was her son. The woman claimed the man had mental problems.