How to cut of rectangle shape to create bracket in Photoshop?

I want a layer like this:
I've drawn the rectangle then I made a selection with the marquee selection tool to delete a part of the rectangle but it deleted whole shape. Can anyone please help me out with this.
Thanks in advance.

hungp15938294 wrote:
Thanks to Trevor.Dennis and @station_two for helping me . I have more a stupid question because I'm not good at Photoshop. Please take a look at image below
Make your rectangle shape. If you want it to be perfectly square, hold down the Shift key while you drag.
Make your two text layers using the centered text alignment option.
Select the entire canvas — Ctrl a (Cmd a )
Select the Move tool and then select the rectangle shape and both text layers. You should see matching ants at the edges of your image.
Click on the Align horizontal centers icon in the Options bar. The rectangle and text layers will now be centered vertically in the image.
If you want the box centered width wise, select just the box layer, and make sure you still have the matching ants at the image edges.
Click on Align vertical centers second icon from the left in the strip above.
You will need to align the text layers to intersect the horizontal lines manually, but if you hold down the shift key while dragging, they will not move sideways.
Nearly done.
You still need those marching ants at the screed edges (Ctrl a). Go Select > Transform selection You will now see handles on the selection.
Hold down the Alt (Opt) key, and drag either the central handles on the vertical sides towards the middle of the box. Both sides will move symmetrically.
When the select is a couple of mm clear of the wider text, click on the tick icon on the Options bar to OK it.
Make sure just the box layer is selected, and add a Layer mask. This will actually hide the bits you don't want hidden, so last step.
Invert the layer mask Ctrl i (Cmd i)

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