...Patrick Gray Sharp is shown this undated hand out photo released by the Texas Department of Public Safety, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. McKinney police have identified Sharp as the man that opened fire on officers outside their police station in McKinney.
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...Patrick Gray Sharp is shown this undated hand out photo released by the Texas Department of Public Safety, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. McKinney police have identified Sharp as the man that opened fire on officers outside their police station in McKinney.
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north of McKinney. McClellan and Sharp were roommates for about four years.
Bobby Cox said Sharp showed no sign of trouble Saturday, the last time he and his wife saw him.
McClellan told the AP he was on vacation outside Texas when he received calls from state troopers and his stepfather telling him what happened. He said Sharp was "fine and dandy" when McClellan left Texas earlier this week.
"Theres nothing I can say. He was a great guy, a good friend," McClellan said.
He said he and Sharp kept guns in their residence because they like sports shooting.
"Were Texans," he said. "We have the right to bear arms."
Sharp may have intended to lure people from the police station so that he could shoot at them from the field where he had taken cover, Kowalski said. He also may have intended to kill them by blowing up the trailer.
The fire set off ammunition in the truck but failed to ignite the trailer, which was filled with wood chips, ammonium nitrate, gasoline and road flares, Kowalski said.
Investigators later combed Sharps property with bomb-sniffing dogs and found more weapons, Kowalski said.
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