College Station ISD’s Forest Ridge Elementary School Still Riding The High From A Visit By The Texas Education Commissioner

Bryan Police Asks For An Outside Investigation Of A “Critical Incident” That Ends In A Fatal Self-Inflicted Gunshot

Bryan police has asked the Texas Rangers to investigate what a BPD news release describes as a “critical incident” that ended in a fatal gunshot. The BPD request for an outside investigation is associated with an unidentified person who died of a self-inflicted gunshot to their head. In response to the gunshot, a BPD officer fired their gun. The officer was placed on administrative leave. No one else were injured. Officers were dispatched Sunday night (December 22) just after 11 to the report of a person with a gun who was experiencing an emotional crisis. The officers attempted to verbally de-escalate the situation for about 20 minutes. News release from Bryan police: On December 22, 2024, at 11:09 PM, officers were dispatched to the 2800 block of Nash St. regarding a subject armed with a handgun and experiencing an emotional crisis. Upon arrival, officers located the individual, who continued to display signs of emotional distress. The officers attempted to verbally de-escalate the situation for approximately 20 minutes. During the de-escalation attempt, the subject retrieved a concealed handgun and fired a fatal gunshot to their head. In response to the gunshot, an officer near the subject discharged their duty weapon. The individual died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and no other persons were injured during the incident. The officer who discharged their duty weapon has been placed on administrative leave in accordance with department policy, pending the outcome of the investigation. For transparency, the Bryan Police Department has requested that the Department of Public Safety Texas Rangers investigate this incident.

Comments At December City Council Meetings About Applying For Volunteer Boards, Committees, And Commissions

This is the time of year when city councils are making appointments to volunteer boards, committees, and commissions. During the December 10th Bryan city council workshop meeting, mayor Bobby Gutierrez and councilman Jared Salvato brought up reviewing minimum attendance requirements that were changed earlier this year. In College Station, mayor John Nichols put out the invitation to apply at the end of the council’s December 12th meeting, which went deep into the evening. last Thursday’s more than four hour council meeting. In College Station, the deadline to apply for filling the next round of vacancies on College Station boards and commissions is December 27th. Click HERE to be directed to a city of College Station blog inviting applicants for volunteer boards, committees, and commissions. Click below to hear comments from the December 10, 2024 Bryan city council workshop meeting and the December 12, 2024 College Station city council meeting.  

Former Bryan Resident Returns To Jail, In Part To Face 20 Bryan Municipal Court Warrants

For the second time in five months, a woman who used to live in Bryan returns to the Brazos County jail in part to face 20 warrants from Bryan municipal court. A Bryan police arrest report from last Thursday night (December 19) shows an officer stopped a car for a taillight that was not working. The driver, 32 year old Imari Oliver of Houston, was arrested for driving with an invalid license. Oliver was also taken to jail for failing to pay more than $12,000 dollars in municipal court fines and fees. Most of the warrants follow tickets issued by a Bryan animal control officer for charges from 2021 of either tethering an animal or failing or refusing to quarantine animals. In July 2024, she was released from jail according to online records to perform community service in some cases and pay fines at a later time in other cases. She was also released from jail on these warrants in January 2022.