Man Fatally Shot at Canyon Lake

CANYON LAKE, TEXAS -- On Thursday the 17th day of January, 2013, at approximately 4:09 a.m., the Comal County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call about a possible Burglary of a Habitation in progress in the 100 block of Chapman Parkway, Canyon Lake, Comal County, Texas.

During the initial 911 call, the caller reported that there sounded like gunshots had been fired.

The Sheriff’s Office received a subsequent 911 call from a male, who had indicated that he had just shot a person in the 100 block of Chapman Parkway, who had confronted him at his residence and the individual was armed with a baseball bat.

Deputies from the Comal County Sheriff’s Office arrived at the scene as well as Emergency Medical Personnel from Canyon Lake Fire and EMS. There they found a white male lying on the ground between two of the residences that was unresponsive. Life saving measures were attempted but were unsuccessful.

Detectives from the Comal County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene to conduct the investigation. No arrests have been made, this is an ongoing investigation.

Comal County Justice of the Peace #1, William Schroeder pronounced the person deceased and an autopsy has been ordered. The autopsy has not been performed at the time of this release.

The name of the deceased will not be released until next of kin is located and notified.

Randy Travis Charged with DWI

SHERMAN, TEXAS — Tests show that country music star Randy Travis was legally drunk when he was arrested naked following a traffic accident in Texas and he has been formally charged with driving while intoxicated.

According to Grayson County District Attorney Joe Brown, Travis had a blood alcohol level in excess of 0.15, nearly double the state's legal limit for driving of 0.08. This is a Class A misdemeanor and punishable by up to a $4,000 fine and two years in jail.

Travis was arrested on a DWI charge and freed on bond following a single-vehicle accident near Tioga, about 60 miles north of Dallas, in August 7. Travis also faces a retaliation charge for allegedly threatening officers. Brown said his office is involved in negotiations to settle the case.

Border Agency Denies Humanitarian Request

HOUSTON - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have denied a Mexican couple's third and final attempt to obtain permission to visit their dying daughter in Texas for humanitarian reasons. (Sanchez is shown here with her husband and 5-year-old daughter Melissa.)

Maria Sanchez, 26, has an inoperable tumor on her spine and is being cared for by her husband in their Houston apartment during her final painful days. She hasn't seen her parents in nine years.

“Humanitarian parole is an extraordinary measure, sparingly used to bring an otherwise inadmissible alien into the United States for a temporary period of time due to a very compelling emergency,” a CBP spokesman said. The agency is not allow such parole to be used to circumvent the normal visa-issue procedures in this case, something critics say represents a profound flaw in the normal visa-issuing procedures.

According to The San Antonio Express-News, the parents' first request was denied because the woman's father, Jose Alfredo Sanchez, was deported 13 years ago for being in the United States illegally. A second and separate request from the dying woman's mother, Ninfa Sanchez, also was denied.

Luis Aguillon, Maria Sanchez's husband, has said that he will take his wife's body to Mexico following her death.