Man Accused Of Shooting Deputy Accepts Life Sentence In Plea Bargain
Posted 4:04 pm Monday, February 13, 2012
By DAYNA WORCHEL
Tyler Morning Telegraph Staff Writer
A man who was scheduled to go to trial this week on six charges of aggravated assault against a public servant has agreed to a plea bargain which will result in a life sentence.
Christopher Martin Summerville, 28, is accused of shooting Smith County Deputy Josh Caulkins in the upper chest when Caulkins and others assigned to the U.S. Marshals Joint East Texas Fugitive Task Force went to the Arbors on Chimney Rock apartment complex on Chimney Rock Drive to serve an arrest warrant on Summerville, a convicted sex offender, for a parole violation. Caulkins survived the shooting because he was wearing a bullet proof vest.
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