article_snippet.sent: Sprouse acknowledged almost immediately after Sprouse was arrested more than a decade ago that Sprouse killed a police officer and another man outside a Dallas-area convenience store.
article_snippet.sent: Sprouse gunned down Ferris Police Officer Marty Steinfeldt, 28, at a gas station outside of Dallas before also shooting dead a customer, Pedro Moreno, 38, in 2002 .
article_snippet.sent: Sprouse was convicted of the death of Ferris Police Officer Harry Marvin 'Marty' Steinfeldt III, who was shot outside the Ferris Food Mart about 20 miles south of Dallas.
article_snippet.sent: Witnesses said Sprouse carried a shotgun into the store the afternoon of Oct. 6, 2002, while he made a purchase and then walked outside and fired toward two men at a pay phone.
article_snippet.sent: he went to he car and appeared to have some trouble with his car, then shot and killed a customer, Pedro Moreno, 38, who was pumping gas nearby.
article_snippet.sent: Court records indicate that Sprouse told an officer who accompanied him to a hospital that him believed Moreno was an undercover officer, so him shot him. '
article_snippet.sent: And I shot the other officer that was in uniform,' Sprouse said, according to Court records.
highlights_snippet.sent: In 2002 Sprouse gunned down Ferris Police Officer Marty Steinfeldt, 28, at a gas station outside of Dallas and a customer, Pedro Moreno, 38 .
  