Randall Dobson, an off-duty Reserve Police Groesbeck Police Officer, surrendered himself Thursday, August 15th, 2019 after a warrant was issued for his arrest according to a Groesbeck Police Department Press Release.
After investigating a July shooting incident, Texas Ranger Samuel T. Dendy, of the Texas Department of Public Safety, felt there was enough evidence to charge Dobson with Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, a 2nd Degree Felony.
According to the arrest affidavit on July, 21st, 2019 around 1:30 a.m., Joel Taylor, a neighbor of Dobson’s, was approached by Dobson and three other men as he stood on the north side of his residence.
Court documents state that Dobson, Taylor, and Joel Taylor’s wife, Lauren had a verbal and physical altercation followed by verbal altercation which led to Joel Taylor firing a firearm.
More firearms were shot across from the Taylor’s residence in a vacant lot, the affidavit reads.
After the end of the verbal and physical altercation, another firearm was allegedly discharged. At this time Dobson retrieved a Glock .40 Model 22 from inside his residence according to the court documents.
The Taylor’s had returned to their property as Dobson retrieved the firearm.
Dobson told Ranger Dendy that he could hear gunfire from the direction of Joey’s residence, and that he fired “six to eight rounds in the direction of where Joey was firing his pistol at me.”
Lauren Taylor was hit in the right side of her back as she walked in her front yard.
One spent .40 mm caliber casing was recovered by Ranger Dendy in the area Dobson claimed to have shot the rounds. No other projectiles were found.
A Limestone county deputy located the Glock .40 Model 22 on top of a vehicle on the Dobson property. Ranger Dendy later took possession of the firearm, and found it contained a magazine and eleven live rounds of ammunition.
At press time it is unknown if there will be more arrest in the case; this is an ongoing investigation according to Sgt. Howard, DPS Media and Communications.
