They Got Another One

So small-town Texas is apparently a bad place to be a schizophrenic.

Plainview police shot and killed a man this morning, for no good reason. Again.
Here's the scoop, so far:

Hale County Deputy Shoots Plainview Man

Reported by: Lauren Murphy

Monday, Aug 6, 2007 @08:57pm CST

A Hale County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed 37 year-old Jose Vasquez.  Just before four o’clock Monday morning, Vasquez got into an altercation with his family.  That’s when his brother, Juan, called police.

Juan said the sheriff’s deputy had the opportunity to handcuff him but didn’t.

He said Vasquez lunged at the officer, and the officer grabbed his gun, and shot Vasquez in the chest. The victim’s friends and family say that deputy did not have to kill him.

“He was a human being. He was treated worse than dog,” said Aurora Gutierrez, a friend of the family.“ them to protect my brother so he would hurt himself. In the end they took his life,” said Juan Vasquez.

The family tells us Vasquez was a schizophrenic.

This is the third fatal shooting this year by law enforcement officials, the second schizophrenic.