On May 10, 2023, officers in Cameron, Texas, were called to the 700 block of North Travis Avenue for a reported gunshot victim. The wounded person told police that her spouse, 29-year-old Albert Rafael Acosta, had shot her. A search warrant was obtained for Acosta’s home on East 7th Street and multiple agencies, including the Cameron Police Department, Milam County Sheriff’s Office, Rockdale Police Department and Texas Department of Public Safety, went to execute it.

When officers arrived, Acosta opened fire. Responding officers returned fire. Sergeant Joshua Lee Clouse, a 39-year-old Cameron Police Department sergeant and U.S. Army veteran, was critically wounded and later died at a nearby hospital. Acosta was also fatally wounded in the exchange. Sergeant Clouse is survived by his wife and two children; his death was the department’s first line-of-duty fatality since 1935. The Texas Rangers were asked to take over the investigation.

Are there details about the timeline or scene that anyone in Cameron can add to help clarify what happened?