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Helicopter footage shows bloody shootout in Texas

Footage from a police helicopter shows a shootout between Texas State Troopers and a suspect in San Antonio, Texas, on a Sunday earlier this year.

The footage released by the Texas Department of Public Safety shows a trooper being shot in the arm by Ernest Manuel Montelongo, who resisted arrest and fled after being stopped for a traffic violation.

Montelongo was then fatally shot by another Trooper.

The Texas State Troopers Association said that the suspect "emerged from his vehicle, produced a gun and forced the trooper to exchange gunfire with him."

Local media reported that authorities said Montelongo was brought to Brooke Army Medical Centre and was pronounced dead a day later.

A spokesman for the DPS said the Trooper was "doing well."