UPDATE: ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - Arlington police say a preliminary investigation shows that a 24-year-old officer responding to a call about domestic violence was shot to death by a man who then shot and killed his ex-girlfriend before killing himself.
Arlington police spokeswoman Tiara Ellis Richard says that it appears Officer Jillian Michelle Smith was shot as she was moving in the direction of the woman's 11-year-old daughter in an effort to protect her.
Police identified the man as 38-year-old Barnes Samuel Nettles and the woman as 29-year-old Kimberly Deshay Carter.
Richard says that when the officer responded to the call, she believed that the man had left and did not know that he had a weapon.
Richard says Nettles had been arrested for an alleged assault on Carter and her mother in September.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - Arlington police have identified 24-year-old Jillian Michelle Smith as the officer who was found shot to death along with two others shortly after responding to an emergency call about a domestic disturbance.
Police spokeswoman Tiara Richard said Wednesday that the other two people found dead in the apartment Tuesday evening were 29-year-old Kimberly Deshay Carter and 38-year-old Barnes Samuel Nettles.
Richard has said dispatchers received a call about shots fired at the apartment complex in Arlington shortly after Smith arrived to respond to the domestic disturbance call. Arlington is a suburb between Dallas and Fort Worth.
Additional police responded to the second call and found the body of their fellow officer and two others inside an apartment.
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