By Arelis Hernandez
Associated Press

Chambers County Sheriff Joe LaRive holds framed photos of sheriff's deputy Shane Detwiler's family. Earlier this week, a shootout and standoff at a rural mobile home park near Baytown, Texas led to Detwiler, 31, being shot and killed. The gunman, a former reserve police officer Gilbert Ortez, Jr., was found dead inside the trailer home. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Mayra Beltran)

BAYTOWN, Texas — At least 100 explosive devices were found in a southeast Texas mobile home where a deputy was shot and killed, a sheriff said Tuesday.

A bomb squad found homemade pipe bombs, gas grenades and altered tear gas devices with booby traps in the mobile home where Deputy Shane Detwiler was shot twice in the head, Chambers County Sheriff Joe LaRive said at a news conference.

Detwiler's death set off a 9 1/2-hour standoff that ended when police and deputies entered the mobile home and found suspected gunman Gilbert Ortez Jr. dead.

Law enforcement agents also found several firearms and drawings containing swastikas and other Nazi themes, LaRive said. Investigators don't know whether Ortez had connections to white supremacist groups, he said.

Any of the explosives could have leveled the trailer near Baytown, LaRive said.

Law enforcement agents began removing explosives from the home when the standoff ended Monday night and that work continued Tuesday. They asked neighbors to stay away from the area until the search and recovery was done. Continue reading