has he confessed? on monday, we ll try to put a have information more about the suspect, the defendant, excuse me. mug shot, current mug shot, again information that will be released as far as the arraignment, when that will be, you ll have all that on monday. he is in harris county custody. thank you. please remember this is less than 24 hours old. so a lot of the questions you re asking will be answered in the days to come. are you looking for anybody else? not at this time. thank you. this press conference out of the houston area just wrapping up now. that was ron hickman, the sheriff down there who is talking about the death of deputy darren goforth execution-style killing. they re announcing the arrest and capital murder charges, arrested shannon j. miles.
of the movement, black lives matter. he says that in this case, cop lives matter, that all lives matter. in the press conference just a couple minutes ago, we also learned that based on a ballistic test, they matched the murder weapon, a large hand gun that they evidently found in miles possession to the crime scene. we also have learned that deputy goforth is the 23rd member of law enforcement to be shot and killed this year here in 2015. the sheriff earlier saying this murder has just absolutely rocked his sheriff s office. it s caused him to lose faith in humanity. molly. 23 law enforcement officers killed this year. a very sad statistic. thank you for bringing up the story. from america s election headquarters, gop frontrunner donald trump taking his campaign down south. the presidential hopeful speaking to the national federation of republican
45 years as a member of law enforcement. we know that shannon miles was a person of interest throughout the course of the day. that changed just within the last hour or two when he was charged with capital murder. authorities say that he walked up behind harris county deputy darren goforth last night right after goforth had finished fueling his car with gas. without warning, opened fire, shooting him in the head, in the back. goforth fell on the ground and authorities say miles continued to hover over him and continued firing. goforth ended up dying at the scene. authorities called it an assassination, execution-style murder. one of the hardest parts for authorities in that area is they say they still don t know what his motive was. the assumption is he was a target because he wore a uniform. at this moment we found no other motive or indication that it was anything other than that. reporter: the sheriff said earlier today he s quite aware