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Any police officers care to weigh in on this one? I am certainly no expert on frisking and have never patted anybody down but guns just don't magically appear on people. Wonder why the arresting officers did not find the gun?

I have also heard of stories where the arresting officer fails to discover a weapon on a defendant and later on in the booking process at the jail one of the jailers does a patdown and finds the weapon! Ouch!

For some reason the Texas Tech Police have clammed up about this. Earlier they gave a 4-minute press conference and took no questions.

Re: the pat-down or lack thereof: If an officer receives a call about a suicidal student with drugs and a gun...you get to the room and find drugs...and the student walks in..then yes, the officer has a right to make a pat-down for his own safety. The Courts are very clear on this.
However, we still do not know exactly what happened so hopefully more details will be forthcoming.

I heard Lubbock P.D. scheduled a press conference for today at 3 p.m. so hopefully we will learn some more details. Should be video of this incident between the cameras at the station and possibly captured on the officer's body-cam. With drugs found in the room surely the officer did a pat-down? Maybe not...where did this firearm come from? Prayers for the officer's family and the perp's family in Seguin.