article_snippet.sent: Kent Sprouse acknowledged almost immediately after Kent Sprouse was arrested more than a decade ago that Kent Sprouse killed a police officer and another man outside a Dallas-area convenience store.
article_snippet.sent: Kent 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: Kent 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 Kent 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: he managed to fire 17 shots and wound Kent Sprouse in the chest, leg and hand.
article_snippet.sent: Court records indicate that Kent 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,' Kent Sprouse said, according to Court records.
article_snippet.sent: Kent Sprouse, 42, was sent to death row for a 2002 shootout at a Ferris, Texas, convenience store that killed police Officer Harry Steinfeldt III
article_snippet.sent: (right) andcustomer  Pedro Moreno, whom Kent Sprouse had asked for help repairing him car .
highlights_snippet.sent: In 2002 Kent Sprouse gunned down Ferris Police Officer Marty Steinfeldt, 28, at a gas station outside of Dallas and a customer, Pedro Moreno, 38 .
  