Deputy fatally shot - gunfire erupted last Thursday, killing a sheriff's deputy while he was in the middle of serving a warrant of arrest at a Central Texas home. 

Authorities said that Sgt. Adam Sowders was shot as he and the team were entering a home located east of Somerville town to serve a warrant of arrest. 

Sowders was shot just as the team of police officers entered the premises around 6 in the morning and later died of blood loss caused by his injuries. There were no other police officers injured or killed during the incident, Sheriff Dale Stroud of Burleson County confirmed.

One suspect of the fatally shot deputy's case was already apprehended and was currently in custody, Sheriff Stroud confirmed in a press conference on Thursday afternoon. Stroud did not disclose any more details regarding the shooter.

Sowders and the team had been serving a warrant at a rural residence in Somerville, a town approximately 90 miles northwest of Houston, said Texas Department of Public Safety's Trooper Jimmy Morgan.

The deputy who was fatally shot in the scene had been serving as the sheriff's deputy for the past seven years. Before that he had previously served as a police officer in the department in Somerville, confirmed by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement.

Stroud confirmed that the shot deputy had recently been promoted to a new position as sergeant investigator.

"Adam was well-respected, extremely well-liked, and he's going to leave a big hole in what we do here," the sheriff told reporters in the press conference.
Sowders was a graduate of Somerville High School, batch 2001. According to school district superintendent Charles Camarillo, Sowders had been friendly and professional as a police officer and was famous in their small town. Several of the current teachers in the district went to the same school as the fatally shot deputy.