YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — A U.S. Marine Corps veteran who disarmed a teenage theft suspect in an Arizona gasoline station by grabbing his gun says he was “doing what wanted to be finished.”
James Kilcer stated he was speaking to the clerk on Wednesday when the gun-pointing suspect entered the shop with two companions.
“It was positively not what I used to be anticipating, however you all the time should be prepared for that type of stuff,” Kilcer advised the Yuma Solar.
Kilcer, now a Army Yuma Proving Floor civilian worker, stated the suspect and his companions have been trying on the clerk, not him.
“I scanned them for every other weapons and didn’t see any,” Kilcer stated. “I knew he was my man at that time.”
Kicler sprang on the suspect, grabbed the gun and hit the suspect within the face with a bag of drinks.
Kilcer stated he then held the suspect from behind at gunpoint as his two companions ran away.
“I suppose I used to be simply in the precise place on the proper time,’’ Kilcer stated. “I used to be doing what wanted to be finished.”
The 14-year-old suspect was booked into the county Juvenile Justice Heart on prices of armed theft and aggravated assault.
The opposite two suspects have been nonetheless being sought.
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