Here's why cell phones throughout Texas (which includes yours) lit up early Friday morning

HALL COUNTY, Texas — Cellphones throughout Texas buzzed and lit up early Friday morning.

The Texas Department of Public Safety issued a blue alert for a wanted suspect in Memphis, Texas, a small metropolis in Hall County in the Texas Panhandle, shortly before five a.m.

Seth Altman, 33, was named the wanted suspect in accordance with the alert, which is aimed at assisting the government in discovering suspects accused of incidents related to a law enforcement officer. 

Altman -- who's white and turned into defined at 6 ft, 2 inches tall and 220 kilos with red hair and blue eyes -- turned into last visible taking walks around 11 p.M. Thursday within the 200 block of South 4th Street in Memphis, approximately ninety miles southeast of Amarillo and 275 miles northwest of Dallas. Altman became visible, heading toward U.S. 287, in keeping with the alert.

The blue alert warned Texans to call 911 if they saw him and not to approach him. A launch from the Texas Department of Public Safety stated officers trust Altman "to be related to the extreme damage of a regulation enforcement officer, related to a serious hazard or risk to the general public and other law enforcement personnel."

KVII in Amarillo pronounced that Altman is accused of capturing Memphis Police Chief Rex Plant, even as Plant turned into looking to serve a warrant.

KVII-TV reports that the Plant was indexed as stable at a hospital in Lubbock. A sanatorium spokesperson must still return a smartphone name from The Associated Press.

What is a Texas blue alert? When is it used?

Blue signals are certainly one of numerous public protection signals issued by the country when authorities want help locating a person. Most of the time, the alerts are in the form of AMBER Alerts or Silver Alerts for missing human beings.

Blue signals are issued while the government is trying to find someone who's wanted for possible involvement in the killing or severe damage of a regulation enforcement officer.

Here's the total standards for a Blue Alert, in step with the Texas Department of Public Safety's website:

A regulation enforcement officer must have been killed or significantly injured by using a wrongdoer.

The investigating law enforcement employer must determine that the perpetrator poses an extreme hazard to the public and other regulation enforcement employees.

A particular description of the perpetrator's automobile, vehicle tag, or partial tag has to be available for broadcast to the general public.

The investigating regulation enforcement business enterprise of the jurisdiction should recommend activating the Blue Alert to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS).

According to the Texas DPS, which often receives questions about emergency alerts, statewide AMBER and Blue Alerts are most effectively dispatched between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m., including vacations and weekends. Regional AMBER and Blue Alert hours could align with the FAQ sheet.

The Associated Press contributed to this record.