After Deputy's ‘Execution Style'-Shooting, Officials Take on ‘Black Lives Matter'

Authorities were questioning a person of interest Saturday in the "execution-style" shooting of a uniformed Texas sheriff's deputy, while warning that "dangerous rhetoric" against law enforcement has "gotten out of control," NBC News reported.

"We've heard black lives matter — all lives matter," a visibly angry Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman told reporters. "Well, cops' lives matter, too."

The emotional news conference came after Harris County Sheriff's Deputy Darren H. Goforth, 47, was shot Friday night after coming out of the convenience store of a Houston Chevron gas station.

Goforth had just filled his patrol car when a man "walked up behind him and literally shot him to death," Hickman said overnight.

During Saturday afternoon's news conference, officials pleaded for help from the public. Hickman said no one had been taken into custody, and asked for any witnesses of the shooting to come forward.

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