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As word of the altercation spread throughout Arlington, family and friends gathered at CrossFit Abattoir, the gym T.J. Antell owned with his wife, Crystal.
He went into protective mode. He’s a father, he’s protective by nature,” Antell’s pastor, Marc Lowrance, told reporters Monday. “And he thought he could help everyone involved, and tragically it went a different way.”
Antell, Lowrance said, “sacrificed himself for this family, much the way he sacrificed himself for strangers today.”
Police spent most of the day interviewing witnesses. When asked if Antell should have intervened, Arlington police spokesman Christopher Cook told the Dallas Morning News there’s no clear cut answer.
“Without having all the details, it would be inappropriate for me to speculate,” he said.
In an interview with TV station NBC 5, Cook offered this advice: “Anytime you can be the best witness you can be, we always recommend that.”
As the number of states allowing people to carry guns has increased, reports of injuries and deaths have also risen.
Just last week, a churchgoer in Pennsylvania — in possession of a concealed carry permit and a some sort of badge to prove it — intervened in an already settled spat between congregation members over reserved church seating. The man, Mark Storms, approached Robert Braxton, showed him a gun on his belt and a gold badge, then asked him to leave, reported the Associated Press. Braxton threw a punch, then Storms fired two shots, killing the man.
Storms was charged with voluntary manslaughter, the AP reported.
Last fall, a Detroit woman with a concealed carry permit fired at a fleeing shoplifter outside a Home Depot. She was later sentenced to 18 months of probation and stripped of her concealed gun permit. She told a TV station that she “will never help anybody again.”
He went into protective mode. He’s a father, he’s protective by nature,” Antell’s pastor, Marc Lowrance, told reporters Monday. “And he thought he could help everyone involved, and tragically it went a different way.”
Antell, Lowrance said, “sacrificed himself for this family, much the way he sacrificed himself for strangers today.”
Police spent most of the day interviewing witnesses. When asked if Antell should have intervened, Arlington police spokesman Christopher Cook told the Dallas Morning News there’s no clear cut answer.
“Without having all the details, it would be inappropriate for me to speculate,” he said.
In an interview with TV station NBC 5, Cook offered this advice: “Anytime you can be the best witness you can be, we always recommend that.”
As the number of states allowing people to carry guns has increased, reports of injuries and deaths have also risen.
Just last week, a churchgoer in Pennsylvania — in possession of a concealed carry permit and a some sort of badge to prove it — intervened in an already settled spat between congregation members over reserved church seating. The man, Mark Storms, approached Robert Braxton, showed him a gun on his belt and a gold badge, then asked him to leave, reported the Associated Press. Braxton threw a punch, then Storms fired two shots, killing the man.
Storms was charged with voluntary manslaughter, the AP reported.
Last fall, a Detroit woman with a concealed carry permit fired at a fleeing shoplifter outside a Home Depot. She was later sentenced to 18 months of probation and stripped of her concealed gun permit. She told a TV station that she “will never help anybody again.”
