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Newsroom
7/27/2006
The off-duty Austin Police officer who suited up and responded to the sniper call at the U-T Tower in 1966 gets a day in his name. Ray Martinez, now a retired Texas Ranger and Comal County Justice of the Peace, will honored with a proclamation of "Ramiro Martinez Day" by the Austin City Council this afternoon.
It will be observed next Tuesday, the 40th anniversary of the day sniper Charles Whitman shot 47 people from atop the University Tower, killing 14 of them.
The siege ended when Martinez, APD Officer Houston McCoy, Department of Public Safety Trooper Jerry Day and Allen Crum, a University Co-op worker who was deputized on the spot, encircled Whitman on the Tower's observation deck.
Martinez emptied his .38 revolver into Whitman, seconds after Officer Houston Street fired his shotgun at the sniper, ending the 96-minute siege. There is still some dispute over which officer fired the shot that killed Whitman.
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