{"id":90676,"date":"2019-09-12T06:44:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T10:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=90676"},"modified":"2019-09-12T06:54:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T10:54:29","slug":"cops-el-paso-hero-made-up-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=90676","title":{"rendered":"Cops: El Paso ‘Hero’ Made Up Story"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Trump presents a Certificate of Commendation to Minnie Grant, the mother of Christopher Grant, at a ceremony in the East Room of the White Hous, Monday, Sept. 9, 2019. (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Newser.com<\/a> and the El Paso Times<\/a> report that Chris Grant’s story of throwing bottles at the El Paso shooter in order to distract him has been brought into question by the police.<\/p>\n

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For many people, the day they visited the White House to be honored for heroic actions would be one to remember with pride. It didn’t work out that way for El Paso mass shooting survivor Christopher Grant. The 50-year-old was arrested by Secret Service agents when he arrived with his family to meet President Trump Monday,\u00a0Time\u00a0reports. The Secret Service says Grant was detained because there was a warrant out for his arrest, but he was released after it was determined that the agency involved would not extradite him. Grant’s mother collected the certificate from the president on his behalf, but police in El Paso later accused him of lying about his actions during the Aug. 3 attack on a Walmart, in which 22 people died,\u00a0ABC\u00a0reports. Grant was shot twice during the attack and spent two days in an induced coma.<\/p>\n

Grant told reporters that he was shot after throwing soda bottles at the gunman to distract him, but El Paso police said Wednesday that store security video did not support his story, the\u00a0El Paso Times\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n

El Paso Police Sgt. Enrique Carrillo, however, said the video tells a different story. “We are not demeaning his reaction which are of basic human instincts but they amount to an act of self-preservation and nothing above that,” Carillo said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh well, it appears he got his 15 minutes of fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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