Texas Lt. Gov. swears in deputies, speaks on the Houston man who carried out the horrific New Orleans attack
HOUSTON - FBI agents and Harris County Sheriff's Office deputies were back at the Northwest Houston home of the man who ran over and killed 14 people in New Orleans on New Year's Day.
A source tells Fox News the Harris County Sheriff's Office Bomb Squad was collecting evidence inside the Northwest Houston home of Shamsud-Din Jabbar.
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This comes after the door to the home was left open most of the day on Thursday and people were recording video. Some even went inside.
Sources also say chemicals typically used for making home-made explosives were discovered during the initial raid on New Year's Day.
"I was acting governor on New Year's Day. Governor Abbott was out of state. Our law enforcement in Texas was on top of it so fast. That house was under surveillance early," says Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, who we caught up with not far from the accused killer's home.
Din Jabbar's home was raided on New Year's Day after the FBI says the Houston man ran down and killed 14 people on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, but why not collect everything in that first seizure? A vehicle was towed from the property during the second search of the Houston home of a military veteran, who has now terrorized our nation after once serving it.
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"The radicalizing of someone who once fought for our country, and I saw this morning where he actually got a medal for his work in anti-terrorism, is a danger we face in this country...Sadly, there are people who have been radicalized just over the Internet. Forget going to meetings," Patrick said.
Even as the FBI and Harris County Sheriff's deputies were back at Din-Jabbar's Houston home, Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick was a few miles away swearing in nearly the entire force of the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable's Office.
"We had a little over 500 deputy constables here today. There were another 200 and something still on the street. Normally, it's me giving the oath of office to my people. I started thinking, I said, I want to be sworn in with my people," says Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman.
"The Precinct 4 Constable's Office is now the 11th largest law enforcement office in the state of Texas out of 2,700. They protect over a million people in Northwest Harris County," Patrick said.
"We have over 40 crime initiatives planned out through the year in addition to deputies patrolling," Herman said.
"Every day they go to work, they put their lives on the line for us. Their jobs are incredibly tough. They have so much they have to look out for, so pray for them, and we'll always be here to support them," Patrick added.
After the swearing-in, the deputies head to serve and protect us from people, just like the man who seemed to simply be a fellow Houstonian, but the FBI says he carried out the unthinkable.
"There's real evil out there in the world," said Patrick.