Man takes life after police chase, standoff

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2014 rainfall to date: 17.46
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The Lampasas City Council plans to leave the property tax rate, currently 39.52
cents per $100 valuation,
unchanged in the upcoming
fiscal year.
For more details about
plans for the city budget -including funding for electrical extensions to the U.S.
Highway 183 business park
and additional paving of city
streets -- please see page 9.
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Man takes life after
police chase, standoff
By JIM LOWE
Staff Writer
In the span of just 15
minutes Monday, a 30-year-old
Lampasas County man who had
violated a protective order and
fled from police took his life in
an isolated clearing off County
Road 3010.
Police identified the man
as Roy Frederick Braudt. He
was a cook at a local fast-food
restaurant, authorities said.
On Monday at 12:40 p.m.,
police received a call for
assistance in the 500 block of
West Third Street, where Braudt
was at a residence in violation
of a protective order, Assistant
Chief of Police Sammy Bailey
said.
The man was throwing rocks at
the residence, and said he had a
gun in his truck and was going to
shoot himself, police said.
Shortly after Officer Andrew
McCatherine arrived at the scene,
he saw Braudt run from the
residence to Race Street, where
he doused himself from head to
feet with what was believed to
be gasoline, a police department
press release stated.
Braudt then fled the scene
in a 2001 GMC Sierra, as
McCatherine tried to stop
him.
McCatherine pursued the
eastbound truck on Second
Street. At Second and Chestnut
streets, McCatherine was joined
in the pursuit by Sgt. Chuck
Montgomery of the Lampasas
Police Department, according to
the press release.
The chase continued north
onto Hackberry Street, then to
FM 580 East. Braudt’s vehicle
reached speeds of up to 90 mph,
as he drove eastward on the
farm-to-market road.
At FM 1715, which intersects
FM 580, the subject turned right.
He then drove to County Road
3010, where he took another
right.
A short distance from FM 1715
and CR 3010, Braudt turned onto
a private caliche road – adjacent
to his residence -- and drove his
truck to a field about a quartermile off CR 3010.
There,
McCatherine
and
Montgomery “witnessed the
male subject with a barrel of a
gun in his mouth while he sat
in his parked truck,” the press
release stated.
At 12:54 p.m., Montgomery
told a police dispatcher that a
standoff had developed.
Authorities gave Braudt verbal
commands to drop the weapon
and tried to talk him out of
shooting himself.
But, at 12:55 p.m., the
Lampasas County resident shot
himself with a .410 shotgun.
Capital EMS was dispatched to
the scene. An emergency medical
helicopter later arrived and
transported Braudt to Temple’s
Scott & White Memorial
Hospital, where he died from the
gunshot wound.
There had been problems at the
West Third Street residence even
before Monday, police said.
Just the day before, Braudt
broke into the residence
where his former girlfriend
was staying, law enforcement
officials said.
On Monday, he returned to the
Please see MAN, page 12
PHOTO BY JEFF LOWE
Close coverage
Senior tight end Charlie Woods, left, rolls out on a pass
route while senior cornerback Luke Argo works to prevent a reception during practice on Wednesday. Today
is the first day of practice in full pads for the Badgers.
Next Friday, Lampasas is set to host Marble Falls and
Wimberley for a scrimmage. Please see page 10 for additional Badger football coverage.
LISD trustees take no action on policy
The Board of Trustees of the Lampasas Independent
School District breezed through the agenda Monday
night before adjourning and reconvening in a budget
workshop.
In its regular session, most items passed with no
discussion, with the exception of proposed revisions to
a policy that deals with donations and memorials.
The policy as it currently reads states trustees may
approve a memorial or similar type of addition, property
or fixture to be erected on or attached to school grounds
LISD parents
Lampasas
Independent
School District Superintendent Dr. Randy Hoyer
reminds parents that their
children’s Family Access
information must be updated
for the 2014-2015 school
year.
Parents may go online to
the school’s Web site at www.
lampasas.k12.tx.us, and click
on the “Parents/Students” tab,
Then click on the “Family/
Student Access” tab. There,
parents will need to log
in and update their child’s
information.
The Family Access window
will remain open through the
start of the school year, Hoyer
said.
Assistance completing the
online update is available
today from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
at the computer labs at
Lampasas High School.
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or a district facility.
It also notes that prior to the board’s deliberation
and action about memorials, the individual or group
recommending the remembrance must present plans
outlining aspects of the proposed memorial, site and
installation process.
Superintendent Dr. Randy Hoyer brought for the
board’s consideration a policy change after a committee
met twice to make recommendations about memorial
gifts.
The committee recommended that only enrolled or
current students be considered for a memorial, and
that books donated to the library in a student’s memory
would be appropriate, as would scholarships.
Also, the committee proposed that markers, plaques,
stones, benches, trees and other items should not be
used as memorials.
Trustees Monday night overruled that recommendation
and took no action on the current policy, which will
remain unchanged.
Board member Dan Claussen said he didn’t like the
idea of a book donated in a student’s memory.
“But I don’t like markers either,” he said. “I want the
board to be able to decide what to do.”
Trustee David Millican agreed, saying no one policy
Please see TRUSTEES, page 12
A century of memories
Lampasas resident reflects on her life as she turns 100
By LISA CARNLEY
Staff Writer
A 100th birthday celebration
for Marguerite Reagan is SatWhen Marguerite Daniels urday from 2-4 p.m. at First
Reagan was born in 1914 at United Methodist Church. The
her family’s place at Ogle in public is invited.
Lampasas County, World War
I was in its beginning stages: through two world wars and are
Austria declared war on Serbia, still around to talk about it.
Germany on Russia and France,
An ‘ordinary life’
and Britain on Germany.
She was born Aug. 6, 1914,
In 1914, President Woodrow
Wilson was the nation’s leader, the daughter of Clint and Pearl
and the cost of a first-class Daniels, Marguerite was the
youngest of two sisters and two
postage stamp was 2 cents.
Also that year, Charlie brothers. One of her sisters died
Chaplain played his most famous when she was 6.
Her father came to Lampasas
role – the Little Tramp – and
the world’s first red and green from Fort Wayne, Ind., on a
traffic lights were installed in freight train when he was 10. His
parents bought a place in Liberty
Cleveland.
Mrs. Reagan, who turned 100 Hill on the Guadalupe River.
“A friend told them how much
Wednesday, keeps a notebook
close at hand so when she thinks water Lampasas had and what
of something from her past, she a beautiful place it was, so they
came up here and bought a
can add it to her memoirs.
“My family wants me to write section of land and built a house
all this down so when I’m gone and grew up there,” Mrs. Reagan
they will have my life on paper,” said of her father’s family.
Of her maternal relatives, Mrs.
she said. “I don’t know why. I’ve
Reagan said her mother was
just lived an ordinary life.”
That may not be exactly true: reared by an aunt and uncle – the
Not many folks have lived Carter family – after her father
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A.J. and Marguerite Reagan are shown in the early years of their marriage.
This photo was taken of the couple around 1939.
died. Their place on the Lometa
“My daddy said he had to wait and he wanted to marry her,”
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