Note: The following story includes topics that may be uncomfortable for readers. Please read with caution. “Every person, from the moment he pulled that trigger, has bent over backwards to make sure that SAN MARCOS — San Marcos Police Officer Kenneth Copeland woke up on the morning of Dec. 4, 2017, ...

SAN MARCOS — The trial for the shooting of a San Marcos Police officer began on Jan. 8 at the Hays County Courthouse. On Dec. 4, 2017, SMPD officer Kenneth Copeland, 58, was shot and killed while serving a warrant to Stewart Mettz, 57. Copeland was struck several times and rushed to Central Texas Me...

A bright personality known to crack jokes and display a smile is the image many in the tight-knit Kyle Police community Monday remember as they honor Officer Fernando Solis. (Photo of Fernando Solis courtesy of the city of San Marcos Even as the circumstances surrounding his tragic death remain unde...

A Hays County Grand Jury Thursday indicted a man accused of shooting and killing San Marcos Police officer Kenneth Copeland in December 2017 for capital murder, according to a press release. Stewart Thomas Mettz, 58, of San Marcos, was indicted on capital murder, which is punishable by death or life...

Hays County authorities have now formally charged the man suspected of shooting and killing San Marcos Police officer Kenneth Copeland on Monday.     Stewart Thomas Mettz Stewart Thomas Mettz, 58, has been charged with capital murder of a peace officer. Mettz was also charged with injury to an elder...

UPDATE – 2:46 p.m., Dec. 7  Hays County authorities have formally charged the man suspected of shooting and killing San Marcos Police officer Kenneth Copeland on Dec. 4. Stewart Thomas Mettz has been charged with capital murder of a peace officer, as well as injury to an elderly person, which is a t...

UPDATE – 8:28 p.m.  San Marcos officials have identified the officer shot and killed while serving a warrant Monday afternoon as Kenneth Copeland, 58, who was a veteran of the force. San Marcos Police Chief Chase Stapp said in a press conference Copeland is the first San Marcos Police officer killed...