By Alex Greig and Ashley Collman PUBLISHED: 21:52 EST, 9 December 2013 | UPDATED: 05:02 EST, 10 December 2013 The Texas college student killed during a traffic stop last Friday, was charging at the campus officer when he was shot at six times, police say. In a press conference Monday afternoon, Chief Richard Pruitt of the Alamo Heights Police Department said 23-year-old student Robert Cameron Redus had wrestled Cpt Chris Carter's baton away from him and hit the policeman in the head and arm with it. Cpt Carter eventually got the baton back and told Redus four times to stop fighting him or he would shoot.
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Robert Cameron Redus, 23, was killed after being pulled over for a traffic stop by campus police officer Chris Carter early Friday morning
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Redus was a student at University of the Incarnate Word
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Police announced Monday that Redus was charging at the policeman with his hand ready to strike when he was shot to death
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A vigil was held to remember Redus at the university on Sunday
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Parents of Redus attended and his father spoke
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Alamo Heights police and Texas Rangers are investigating the shooting
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Carter is on administrative leave during the investigation
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