--- title: Texas Candidate Office Attacked, Possibly Racially Motivated description: A white male in a white Jeep pulled up and shouted racial profanities before firing at the building. canonical: https://time.com/4242787/texas-office-racial-attack/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-01T14:58:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:29:53.658Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Texas Sheriff Candidate's Office Shot in Racially Motivated Attack og:description: A white male in a white Jeep pulled up and shouted racial profanities og:url: https://time.com/4242787/texas-office-racial-attack/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Texas Sheriff Candidate's Office Shot in Racially Motivated Attack twitter:description: A white male in a white Jeep pulled up and shouted racial profanities twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Texas Sheriff Candidate's Office Shot in Racially Motivated Attack by [Shamar Walters / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Shamar Walters / NBC News Mar 1, 2016 2:58 PM CUT by [Shamar Walters / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Shamar Walters / NBC News Mar 1, 2016 2:58 PM CUT Five people were taken into custody and questioned late Monday in connection with the apparent racially motivated shooting at a Texas campaign office, police said. Zena Stephens, who is African-American and a university police chief, [is seeking the Democratic nomination to run for the role of sheriff in Jefferson County](http://www.zenaforsheriff.com/ "undefined"). Stephens told NBC News that she was standing outside her campaign headquarters in Beaumont, Texas, when a white male in a white Jeep pulled up and shouted “f\*\*\* the n\*\*\*\*\*s.” Seconds later, a shot shattered the glass door of the building. No one was hit or injured. There were… [_Read the rest of this story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-candidate-zena-stephens-office-shot-apparent-racial-attack-n528611 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4242787/texas-office-racial-attack/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4242787/texas-office-racial-attack/"},"headline":"Texas Sheriff Candidate's Office Shot in Racially Motivated Attack","datePublished":"2016-03-01T14:58:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:29:53.658Z","description":"A white male in a white Jeep pulled up and shouted racial profanities before firing at the building","url":"https://time.com/4242787/texas-office-racial-attack/","keywords":["Crime","politics","Race","shooting","Election","court","office"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Shamar Walters / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4242787/texas-office-racial-attack/","name":"Texas Sheriff Candidate's Office Shot in Racially Motivated Attack"}}]}] ```