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(CNN) --
In what would be his last moments, the veteran police officer sat in his squad car minutes after midnight when the driver's door of the car in front of him opened.
Corporal Charles Galloway had just stopped traffic and was trying to reach a dispatcher when a man, originally from El Salvador, got out of the white Toyota Avalon.
He turned to Galloway and pointed what looked like a rifle at him.
He then fired, again and again, in Galloway's direction, according to a probable cause document filed in the Harris County, Texas, District Court, citing body and dash camera footage of the shooting.
The recordings themselves were not released.
As bullets tore through the windshield, Galloway sat in the driver's seat of his patrol vehicle.
He was beaten multiple times, his own body camera shows, court documents say.
Galloway, 47, died primarily from a gunshot wound to the head, the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences later determined.
His death came as the number of police officers killed for serious crimes in the line of duty reached its highest point since September 11, 2001, according to preliminary 2021 data from the FBI, and as gun violence has increased across the country. .
After firing the shots at Galloway sometime between 12:30 a.m. and 12:50 a.m. on Jan. 23, the man in the video returned to the white Avalon and drove away, court documents show.
Police soon checked their license plates, which led them to the person they call the "common law wife" of 50-year-old Oscar Rosales.
She, according to court records, identified Rosales as the man who got out of the white Toyota, as captured on Galloway's dash cam video, and the white Avalon as the one she said she owned and that he had been driving.
Oscar Rosales, left, is charged with the murder of Houston area law enforcement officer Charles Galloway.
After an international manhunt, Rosales was arrested last week by Mexican authorities in Ciudad Acuña, across the border from Del Rio, Texas.
He had been wanted for crimes committed in 1996 in Harris County and also for murder in El Salvador, the Harris County District Attorney said Thursday.
Rosales is from El Salvador and is not a US citizen, court documents obtained by CNN show.
Rosales was transferred to Harris County and is being held without bond on charges of capital murder of a police officer in connection with Galloway's death, court records show.
His attorney, Allen Tanner, had no comment Monday, he told CNN.
Rosales is due in court on February 23, court records show.
Rosales' jail visits were limited to his attorneys and a private investigator and excluded reporters, according to Harris County District Court records.
Rosales was deemed indigent and appointed an attorney, court records show.
Galloway, a deputy sheriff of Harris County Sheriff's Precinct 5, is survived by a daughter, his sister, and "the many police officers here in Precinct 5 who are trained by him," mentored by him, "and will be missed." tremendously," said his partner Ted Heap, Harris County Precinct 5 Police Officer.
Funeral services for Galloway are scheduled for this Tuesday morning.
