{"id":89173,"date":"2018-03-05T14:55:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T19:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=89173"},"modified":"2018-03-05T14:55:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T17:56:16","slug":"police-shoot-man-disarmed-potential-mass-murderer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/police-shoot-man-disarmed-potential-mass-murderer\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Shoot Texas Man Who Disarmed Potential Mass Murderer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_89174\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gastatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/garces.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"police-shoot-man-disarmed-potential-mass-murderer\" title=\"Police Shoot Texas Man Who Disarmed Potential Mass Murderer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89174\" title=\"Police Shoot Texas Man Who Disarmed Potential Mass Murderer\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/garces-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Police Shoot Texas Man Who Disarmed Potential Mass Murderer\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/garces-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/garces-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/garces.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-89174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Garces (<em>Photo: ABC7Amarillo<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tony Garces got more than he bargained for when he walked into the Faith City Mission last month in Amarillo, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The same day a degenerate in Parkland, Florida, killed 17 students and teachers, another gunman tried to take hostage over 100 people in the mission\u2019s chapel.<\/p>\n<p>Garces managed to wrestle the firearm away from the suspect, but a short time later was shot twice by police: once in the back and once in the lung.<\/p>\n<p>He survived the encounter but returned to the hospital last week to be treated for a blood clot in his lung, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/he-disarmed-a-possible-church-shooter-%E2%80%94-then-the-police-arrived-and-shot-him\/ar-BBJG5UD?li=BBnbfcL\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"police-shoot-man-disarmed-potential-mass-murderer\" title=\"Police Shoot Texas Man Who Disarmed Potential Mass Murderer\">NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some take Garces\u2019 experience as evidence against arming teachers in schools, a proposal currently endorsed by President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this proves anything, it proves that when a situation is that tense and you&#8217;ve got officers trained to shoot first, and have been told by the law to shoot first if you&#8217;re remotely threatened, they&#8217;re going to feel threatened when they see a teacher with a gun,\u201d said Jeff Blackburn, Garces\u2019s lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have officers who are ready to use lethal force they&#8217;re going to use it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But a closer look at the incident reveals that Garces\u2019 actions, though brave, weren\u2019t the most cautious.<\/p>\n<p>Garces told NBC that the suspect entered the church and told the attendees he wanted to hold them hostage for several days. He ordered a woman to zip-tie Garces\u2019 hands, but the woman left one of the ties loose.<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/george-clooney-donates-500k-gun-control-march-washington\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"police-shoot-man-disarmed-potential-mass-murderer\" title=\"Police Shoot Texas Man Who Disarmed Potential Mass Murderer\"> George Clooney Donates $500K to Gun Control March on Washington<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>When a few other people lunged towards the gunman, Garces went after his weapon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as I moved, he pulled the trigger,\u201d Garces said. \u201cIt hit the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garces disarmed the suspect, but instead of placing the gun out of reach, he took the handgun with him as he fled through a side door.<\/p>\n<p>He was carrying the gun upside down with both hands when he encountered a police officer, who ordered Garces to drop the weapon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started bending down to put it on the ground,\u201d Garces said. \u201cI didn&#8217;t want to drop it. It would go off. That&#8217;s when he shot me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garces did not explain why he fled the chapel even after the suspect had been subdued or why he decided to take the gun with him.<\/p>\n<p>That suspect,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/local.nixle.com\/alert\/6407853\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"police-shoot-man-disarmed-potential-mass-murderer\" title=\"Police Shoot Texas Man Who Disarmed Potential Mass Murderer\">identified in a separate statement<\/a>\u00a0as Joshua Len Jones, 35, was booked on six charges of aggravated kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>The Amarillo Police Department has <a href=\"https:\/\/local.nixle.com\/alert\/6407169\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"police-shoot-man-disarmed-potential-mass-murderer\" title=\"Police Shoot Texas Man Who Disarmed Potential Mass Murderer\">admitted<\/a> to the incident but has not said why the officer pulled the trigger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI started bending down to put it on the ground,\u201d Garces said. \u201cI didn&#8217;t want to drop it. 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