Posted 4:04 pm Monday, February 13, 2012
Man Accused Of Shooting Deputy Accepts Life Sentence In Plea Bargain
By DAYNA WORCHEL
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.
Summerville pleaded not guilty in July to six counts of aggravated assault of a public servant, engaging in organized criminal activity, unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of a prohibited weapon. He was indicted in October on two additional charges: aggravated robbery and failure to register as a sex offender.
He pleaded guilty today to two charges of aggravated assault against a public servant. He also pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and was sentenced to 20 years, which will be served consecutively after the two life sentences. The sentencing means effectively that Summerville spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Updated Monday, February 13, 2012 at 4:04 p.m. CST
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.
Summerville pleaded not guilty in July to six counts of aggravated assault of a public servant, engaging in organized criminal activity, unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of a prohibited weapon. He was indicted in October on two additional charges: aggravated robbery and failure to register as a sex offender.
He pleaded guilty today to two charges of aggravated assault against a public servant. He also pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and was sentenced to 20 years, which will be served consecutively after the two life sentences. The sentencing means effectively that Summerville spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Updated Monday, February 13, 2012 at 4:04 p.m. CST
