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OMG! Why is this firefighter on PAID administrative leave???? If it were anyone else, they would have been fired IMMEDIATELY!
FTFD!!!!
DALLAS - A Dallas firefighter was arrested Thursday afternoon for shooting a gun in a firehouse.
A police bulletin was sent out Wednesday for 37-year-old Jesus Ventura. He was stationed at Station 45 on W. Commerce Street in West Dallas.
Apparently last week Ventura brought semi-automatic handgun to the station on his day off. According to a police report, he was waiving the weapon around pointing it at his fellow firefighters.
Sources said he pulled the trigger several times, but only one bullet fired. The other firefighters took cover and no one was hurt.
Police had been looking for Venture on deadly conduct charges. He was arrested just before 5 p.m. outside his home in Irving. He was still wearing a Dallas Fire Rescue t-shirt.
Ventura has been placed on paid administrative leave. A DFR internal affairs investigation will be conducted alongside the criminal investigation. DFR hopes to find out what happened to the 8-year veteran.
“If there’s something going on in his personal life, we want to use our resources that we have available to us as the city of Dallas and fire department to help make the situation better,” said Lt. Joel Lavender, a DFR spokesman.
There was another shooting at Station 1 on Turtle Creek Boulevard on Tuesday. That was a drive-by shooting and two bullets pierced the garage doors. No one was hurt.
Police are not saying if they believe the two cases are related. DFR said it’s unlikely, but it is waiting for ballistics test results.
Read more on myFOXdfw.com: http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/fir...#ixzz1p8s4ZJrD
FTFD!!!!
DALLAS - A Dallas firefighter was arrested Thursday afternoon for shooting a gun in a firehouse.
A police bulletin was sent out Wednesday for 37-year-old Jesus Ventura. He was stationed at Station 45 on W. Commerce Street in West Dallas.
Apparently last week Ventura brought semi-automatic handgun to the station on his day off. According to a police report, he was waiving the weapon around pointing it at his fellow firefighters.
Sources said he pulled the trigger several times, but only one bullet fired. The other firefighters took cover and no one was hurt.
Police had been looking for Venture on deadly conduct charges. He was arrested just before 5 p.m. outside his home in Irving. He was still wearing a Dallas Fire Rescue t-shirt.
Ventura has been placed on paid administrative leave. A DFR internal affairs investigation will be conducted alongside the criminal investigation. DFR hopes to find out what happened to the 8-year veteran.
“If there’s something going on in his personal life, we want to use our resources that we have available to us as the city of Dallas and fire department to help make the situation better,” said Lt. Joel Lavender, a DFR spokesman.
There was another shooting at Station 1 on Turtle Creek Boulevard on Tuesday. That was a drive-by shooting and two bullets pierced the garage doors. No one was hurt.
Police are not saying if they believe the two cases are related. DFR said it’s unlikely, but it is waiting for ballistics test results.
Read more on myFOXdfw.com: http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/fir...#ixzz1p8s4ZJrD
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