This undated photo provided by the City of College Station, Texas shows Thomas Caffall. Caffall, 43, has been identified by authorities as the shooter who opened fire from inside his home in College Station as he was being served an eviction notice, killing Brazos County constable Brian Bachmann and another man, on Monday, Aug. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/City of College Station)
This undated photo provided by the City of College Station, Texas shows Thomas Caffall. Caffall, 43, has been identified by authorities as the shooter who opened fire from inside his home in College Station as he was being served an eviction notice, killing Brazos County constable Brian Bachmann and another man, on Monday, Aug. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/City of College Station)
An investigator uncovers a body at the scene where a gunman opened fire on a police officer serving an eviction notice near the Texas A&M University on Monday, Aug. 13, 2012, in College Station, Texas. College Station Assistant Police Chief Scott McCollum says Brazos County Constable Brian Bachmann was among three people, including the gunman, killed in the shootout. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Mayra Beltran) MANDATORY CREDIT: NO SALES, MAGS OUT, TV OUT, INTERNET: AP MEMBERS ONLY
Police gather near the scene where a gunman opened fire on a police officer serving an eviction notice near the Texas A&M University on Monday, Aug. 13, 2012, in College Station, Texas. College Station Assistant Police Chief Scott McCollum says Brazos County Constable Brian Bachmann was among three people, including the gunman, killed in the shootout. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Mayra Beltran) MANDATORY CREDIT: NO SALES, MAGS OUT, TV OUT, INTERNET: AP MEMBERS ONLY
Law enforcement officials conduct a grid search of an area where police say a gunman was being served an eviction notice when he opened fire from inside a home near Texas?A&M and killed a law enforcement officer Monday, Aug. 13, 2012, in College Station, Texas. Three people, including the gunman, were killed in the shootout. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
Police gather near the scene where a gunman opened fire on a police officer serving an eviction notice near the Texas A&M University on Monday, Aug. 13, 2012, in College Station, Texas. College Station Assistant Police Chief Scott McCollum says Brazos County Constable Brian Bachmann was among three people, including the gunman, killed in the shootout. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Mayra Beltran) MANDATORY CREDIT: NO SALES, MAGS OUT, TV OUT, INTERNET: AP MEMBERS ONLY
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) ? The family of a gunman killed in a shootout near the Texas A&M campus that also left two other people dead Monday afternoon say they are "distraught by the havoc that he has caused."
Police say Thomas Alton Caffall, 35, opened fire on Brazos County Constable Brian Bachmann just after noon as the lawman brought an eviction notice. Both men were later pronounced dead at a hospital.
A 51-year-old man was the third person killed in the shootings at an off-campus home not far from the university's football stadium, College Station Assistant Police Chief Scott McCollum said. Three other law enforcement officers and a 55-year-old woman were wounded, he said.
Officers responding to reports of an officer down saw Bachmann wounded on the ground in the front yard, then got into what McCollum described as an extended shootout with Caffall, who eventually was shot.
"Our hearts and prayers go out to the families and this is just a senseless tragedy," said Courtney Clark, Caffall's sister, reached Monday evening at her mother's home in Navasota, about 20 miles to the south. "We are just distraught by the havoc that he has caused. We're shocked."
She declined additional comment.
Police spokeswoman Rhonda Seaton said Chris Northcliff was outside the home when he was shot, as was the wounded woman, whose name had not been released by Monday evening.
The woman was hospitalized in serious condition following surgery. One of the injured officers, Justin Oehlkee, was treated for a gunshot wound in the calf and was in stable condition, Seaton said. Two other officers ? Brad Smith and Phil Dorsett, were treated for "shrapnel injuries" and released, Seaton said.
Police declined to speculate on a motive for the gunfire.
The shootings prompted Texas A&M to issue an emergency alert warning students and residents to stay away from the area. Most of the university's 50,000 students were not on the campus about 90 miles northwest of Houston because the fall semester doesn't start until Aug. 27, university spokeswoman Sherylon Carroll said.
Diana Harbourt, 27, who lives about a block from where the shootings happened, said she heard five loud popping sounds from a back room of her home looking out her front door to see an officer park his vehicle on the street and crouch in front of another vehicle.
"We heard him exchanging some words with the person and then shots being fired," Harbourt said. "And then we heard more sirens and more officers and fire trucks came and they were keeping their distance, kind of slowly moving in. More officers showed up and told us to stay inside."
Officers, meanwhile, were dealing with losing someone McCollum called a respected colleague.
"Brian Bachmann was very close to everyone in law enforcement," McCollum said. "He was a pillar in this community, and it's sad and tragic that we've lost him today."
Bachmann worked more than 19 years in law enforcement, according to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education. He started out with the Hempstead Police Department before spending most of his career with the Brazos County Sheriff's Office. He had been a constable since January 2011, after winning election to the post the prior November.
In a February 2010 candidate profile in the Bryan-College Station Eagle, the married father of two said he wanted to bring "constables back to the community" by actively patrolling neighborhoods to discourage crime.
Constables are law enforcement officers similar to sheriff's deputies who are elected to serve in specific county precincts. They primarily serve warrants and official paperwork or act as courtroom bailiffs.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, an A&M alumnus, said at an event in Florida that his "prayers are with any of those that have been injured." A&M President R. Bowen Loftin issued a statement calling Monday a "sad day in the Bryan-College Station community."
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Associated Press writers Juan A. Lozano in Houston, Nomaan Merchant in Dallas and Melissa Nelson-Gabriel in Destin, Fla., contributed to this report.
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