Temple police say a Central Texas police chief shot over the weekend while working an off-duty security job at a bar in Temple remains in critical but stable condition.
Darrell Allen, the chief in Marlin, is being treated at Baylor Scott and White Hospital after the shooting early Sunday. The Waco Tribune-Herald reports a bullet entered his cheek and shattered his jaw.
A 24-year-old Temple man, Derrick Wayne Gamble, was in the Bell County Jail Monday, held under $750,000 bond on a charge of aggravated assault on a peace officer.
Authorities say Allen was trying to detain Gamble at the Temple bar when he was shot.
Allen has been chief in Marlin, a town of some 6,000 about 30 miles northeast of Temple, since 2009.
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