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Mar. 5, 2013 2:37pm

At the sound of gunfire, it might be someone’s natural reaction to duck and cover. Not for KENS 5 reporter Marvin Hurst in San Antonio, though. In fact, he didn’t even seem to flinch.

KENS 5 Reporter Marvin Hurst Live Report During Standoff Interrupted by Gunfire

KENS 5 reporter Marvin Hurst (Image: KENS 5 screenshot)

Hurst was conducting a live report in front of a home early Monday morning where the local SWAT team was holding a standoff with a man suspected to be armed and who had assaulted a woman earlier.

Hurst details the events that unfolded through the early morning leading to the 4-hour-long standoff, according to KENS. Then in the still dark morning hours the sound of rapid fire rips through the air. The camera quickly pans away from Hurst toward the house.

Amazingly, Hurst doesn’t seem fazed. Without even changing his tone, Hurst continues with the report.

“As you can hear in the background as this situation is going on that was gunfire of some sort,” Hurst calmly said. “Something has occurred as we were speaking live on air.”

Watch the report and hear the gunfire:


After he finishes up his briefing, one of the station anchors asks Hurst if he heard any yelling before the shots were fired. Hurst said he was focused on giving his report and that he didn’t hear anything prior to the gunfire.

According to KENS, members of the SWAT team shot and killed the suspect, later identified as 31-year-old Jimmy Garza, Jr.

Here’s more of the back story leading up to the standoff from KENS:

The standoff all started as an assault against an ex-girlfriend and an elaborate plan to cover up the abuse. The 34-year-old ex-girlfriend is a Bexar County probation officer.

The woman told officers she had recently broken up with Garza and moved out of his house after eight months. On Sunday night, she met him at a bar and had agreed to go home with him.

According to a police report, Garza began hitting her as they drove away. He then stopped the car, forced handcuffs on her wrists and continued beating her.

The woman told police that Garza dragged her into his home and threatened to shoot her with a handgun.

Bleeding profusely, the woman convinced Garza that she need to go to a hospital. McManus said that’s when the suspect came up with the idea to crash his white SUV as a way to explain the woman’s injuries. The woman, however, also convinced Garza that she didn’t need to be in the actual the crash.

“And once the car was crashed, she took off,” McManus said.

KENS 5 Reporter Marvin Hurst Live Report During Standoff Interrupted by Gunfire

(Image: KENS 5 screenshot)

The woman was helped by the owner of a home she ran to and was treated at a local hospital. Garza on the other hand ran into his home, which is where the standoff took place.

San Antonio police Chief William McManus told KENS the team thought at one point Garza would surrender, but when he rushed out of the house, gun in hand, officers opened fire.

This story has been updated to correct a typo. 

(H/T: Media Bistro)

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  • ktmrider1
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 8:49pm

    a lot of of black people live in a violent environment that they themselfs create. so if this black reporter came from the “hood” gunshots are just a normal noise to him

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    • Miami
      Posted on March 5, 2013 at 9:35pm

      That’s not the point, the fact is he was so stuck on the AR15 are bad script that he almost missed the shoot out.

      Note the police did not mention an AR just a handgun/pistol

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      Miami  
    • Chrisxx5
      Posted on March 5, 2013 at 11:22pm

      Are some of you really that ignorant about black people? First off..they’re terrified either way. Second, Most do not, and third, there is no black neighborhood that is literally a war zone where you’re ducking bullets constantly. Right wingers out of touch with minorities as usual

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    • MOwithabrain
      Posted on March 6, 2013 at 3:52am

      CHRISXX5 – “First off..they’re terrified either way”. Who’s that? Are you referring to black folks? My girlfriend took a midnight shift nursing job which required her to sit the entire shift at a families house to help care for their daughter (approx 3 yrs old) who was basically a vegtable.
      Night after night, my girlfriend would hear gunshots. When she asked the Grandma for the 1st time “are those gunshots?!”….Grandma replied “Yeah girl…where you think you at? This the hood. No point in callin the cops….we did that everytime we heard shots, they’d always be out here”. Upon hearing shots the following week, my girlfriend asked the older daughter (about 10 yrs old) if she was ever scared cause of shots being fired, she replied “huh uh…after a while, you get used to…its no big deal. Why? …you scared?”.
      I’d say this family (among others in the neighborhood) were not terrified.

      “…there is no black neighborhood that is literally a war zone where you’re ducking bullets constantly”.
      See above story. The first time my girlfriend heard shots while at the home, I was on the phone with her. 3 shots…pop pop pop. I asked “were those gunshots???”. She replied “I dont know…you think? A muffler maybe?”. By the time she gets off shift, she has some enlightening information to share…well I’ll be!…there WERE gunshots.
      I’d say KTMRIDER1 isn’t too far off from reality.

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    • antiprogressive
      Posted on March 6, 2013 at 4:12am

      Quite the opposite here as a matter of fact.
      A loud BANG at work seldom causes ME to jump and a lot of my black buddies make fun of me because of it.
      They JOKE about how THEY duck and cover.
      They tell me they LEARNED that behavior in their rough neighborhoods.
      As if I am too “nerdy” to THINK about gunfire right away…

      And they be RIGHT.
      I DON’T think GUN with every loud bang.

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    • NoSleeper
      Posted on March 6, 2013 at 4:36am

      Wow. Why always back to the racial crap? Do not fall prey to the Left’s attempts to control the discussion, to distract from the issues by fueling racial tensions…time to rise above the nonsensical arguments. Americans, regardless of color, just want liberty and the chance to prosper. Many seem to have forgotten that, but they will remember (hopefully before it is too late).

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    • Proverbs17-12NLT
      Posted on March 6, 2013 at 9:30am

      NOSLEEPER it’s too late, they have called us NON Racists, Racist for so long, we are now Racist. Self fulfilling Prophecy, they are going to wish they kept there mouths shut. Obama, Sharpton, Jackson are taking their race back to the slave ages at the expense of good Blacks, it’s sad.

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      Proverbs17-12NLT  
    • EgoLacuna
      Posted on March 6, 2013 at 11:04am

      There is a HUGE problem with racism on this site! Go through comments on the Blaze, and look to see what type of comments/readers are the first to introduce race. It is always a conservative Blaze poster suggesting that black people are less intelligent, less trustworthy, or expected to act like goons. As if that wasn’t disgusting enough, they go on to justify themselves by twisting the concept that PC speech has become too restrictive. By far the worst part is that most people stay silent. The trolls jump in, but that’s it. Conservatives don’t have a right to be in power until they get a hold on the narrow minded bigots in the party. In this case, silence is agreement.

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    • Doctor Bulldog
      Posted on March 6, 2013 at 11:32am

      KTMRIDER1,

      Um… Yeah, I see where you are going with this, but if that were true, then folks from the hood wouldn’t be afraid of pit bulls, either.

      Just my two bits.

      Cheers!

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    • Mein_Land
      Posted on March 6, 2013 at 11:35am

      @ktmrider1
      If your not already Joe Biden’s speech writer you should apply for the job. You would be perfect for the job with comments as “dumb” as that.

      Report this comment

      Mein_Land  
    • tolerence
      Posted on March 6, 2013 at 1:37pm

      Hey Chrisxx5,dont say that all rightwingers are ignorant,that comment in itself is bigoted towards all rightwingers so you also sound ignorant,were you outraged when you heard the New Black Panthers state on their radio show that “Its good when white babies die!” or Eric Holder said “we only take election fraud cases when White People do it” or when the New Black Panthers were caught this election and in “08″ election standing in front of voting places with nightsticks in their hands,threatening Republican voters,and its also racist to think all Republicans are White I am a Minoritie,and I am Republican and any Black Folks who vote Democrat,you are voting for the party who were the slave owners,the party who were the origional KKK members,the party who aborts 40% of the Black race thorugh Plann Parenthood that was founded by Margerit Sanger who back in the “30′s” said “that all Black People are weeds that need too get plucked from the earth” and all planned parenthoods are built in largely Minoritie neibhorhoods,why is that? and did you know that when Blacks were freed from Slavery,it was the Democrats who took their right to vote away from the Black Ppeople once they assumed power again,and Black Pople did not get that right back for almost a 100 yrs,it was the Democrats who fought the 14th amendment which would protect inter racial marriage,it was Maxine Waters who was caught on tape sayin “We need to keep them in the projects,keep them on foodstamp.whos them?

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    • DenverKitty
      Posted on March 6, 2013 at 2:42pm

      ChrisXXX5: What are you — STUPID??? How about Harlem? Detroit? St. Louis? Kansas City? I recommend you go walking around, please…oh and may I suggest it be at night? You are a DOOFUS.

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    • ktmrider1
      Posted on March 6, 2013 at 8:58pm

      well it’s clear to me that you white liberals dont have to live with the crime that comes from the established “black only” hoods. go ahead and do some research and take a little stroll down through Watts or south central LA at night and if you survive please post again and tell me I’m wrong.

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  • RoscoePColtrane
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 8:12pm

    “That was gunfire of some sort, something has occurred”….. Wow, dude’s hardcore, staying so focused.

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  • Miami
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 8:08pm

    Straight of the bat with the AR15 yet no AR15 was used or found by Police.

    What the hell is wrong with these morons who call themselves “reporters” I guess, I was not paying attention….

    Funny I always thought the First job of a reporter was to pay attention…?

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    Miami  
    • ItsAllCrap
      Posted on March 6, 2013 at 8:18am

      He said an ar15 and a Glock. He said GLOCK as if it was an evil instrument like the vile ASSAULT WEAPON. He didn’t use the term handgun or pistol. Now here we go with the moron lefties changing the conversation to include Manufacturers by name and make them responsible “it’s an evil GLOCK” What is next? It’s an evil Beretta! It’s an evil Smith and Wesson. It’s an evil _______! They are already introducing legislation to allow manufacturers to be sued. Are we seeing the beginning of the handgun bans!

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      ItsAllCrap  
  • ddg7
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 8:05pm

    Thank you San Antonio PD! You saved San Antonio taxpayers thousands of dollars. Keep up the good work.

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    • Miami
      Posted on March 5, 2013 at 8:10pm

      Good Point

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      Miami  
    • SgtB
      Posted on March 5, 2013 at 10:44pm

      What if this 34 year old corrections officer was a lunatic of a woman and staged the entire thing to get back at her ex and just had him murdered by police that she knew? Would you still be so cheerful then?

      There is a reason why we have courts. Sure, they don’t currently serve the role they are supposed to at the moment or really ever, but they are our right. This story seems fishy to me and it sounds alot like this woman was a much a nutjob as the man. I think they probably deserved each other.

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    • Mein_Land
      Posted on March 6, 2013 at 11:40am

      You just made a good case for drones attacks in the US. Did Garza come out shooting or pointing it at people? or was he just holding a gun? need more info to see if the officers were justified in shooting Garza.

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      Mein_Land  
  • KelVarnson
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 7:57pm

    “Amazingly, Hurst doesn’t seem phased”

    “Phased”? The word is FAZED.

    Sheesh…

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    KelVarnson  
    • Stoneez
      Posted on March 5, 2013 at 10:01pm

      …or Phased. Look it up Einstein, Mr. Professor of the English language. Another wasted post from the spelling/grammar police!! #numbnuts

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      Stoneez  
    • Piercetopher
      Posted on March 5, 2013 at 10:34pm

      I looked it up and “Fazed” is more accurate than “Phased” as fazed refers to discomfort while phased refers to a change of stages.

      You can make the deduction through the definitions or find several articles discussing the difference between the two terms.

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    • BostonHarold
      Posted on March 6, 2013 at 4:35pm

      Actually from his cool mellow demeanor I think he had a few adult beverages to get the courage to go into that neighborhood and was ‘faced’.

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  • HelterSkelter
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:53pm

    at least we know WI Senator jon erpenbach was not going to be hurt, he was HIDING UNDER A BED AT MOTEL 6 IN ROCKFORD IL when this took place.

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    • RemoteCoderz
      Posted on March 5, 2013 at 7:28pm

      In his defense, he was looking for his contact that fell out, it was right there next to his ******.

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  • ColoradoCassie
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:57pm

    AR15′s are rapid fire, meaning that they are not automatic. You have to pull the trigger each time to engage the bullet. Our lame stream media keeps calling these things assault weapons when in fact the word “assault weapon” is an invented word. Anything can qualify as an assault weapon. For instance, baseball bats, knives, spears, bow and arrow, car, train, bus, a fist, you name it…..anything can be an “assault weapon.”

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    • Miami
      Posted on March 5, 2013 at 8:12pm

      That Guy’s mouth is an assult weapon

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      Miami  
    • BlueStrat
      Posted on March 6, 2013 at 6:43am

      Just further proof of something I’ve believed for ages.

      Progressivism is communicable brain damage.

      They exhibit all the signs of insanity & extreme mental impairment.

      They repeat the same actions/policies over and over, failing each and every time, but keep expecting a different outcome each time.

      They live in a reality & world all their own, one in which government doesn’t become oppressive when allowed too much power, increasing government spending creates jobs, and government can perpetually spend far more than it takes in and that the economy is capable of repaying without a collapse.

      They attempt to distract from and flee any discussion, even become extremely angry, even violent, when forced to confront facts and/or realities that conflict with their ideology & agenda.

      Progressivism is the US’s biggest public-health issue and is responsible for the majority of all the problems in the US currently. It is imperative that all those identified as Progressives be forced into holding camps for psychological treatment to protect the general public and the nation from the existential threat they represent to the lives and liberty of US citizens and the continued viability of the US as a nation.

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  • denkat56
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:52pm

    Its amazing what one can get used to, if you can just ignore it. I raised 4 teens that way.

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  • BigDaddyTex
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:34pm

    Ain’t no big thang! Happens every night in Ol’ San Quilmas!!!
    Orale vato!!

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    • jlightning1
      Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:00pm

      Well he figures that he is 100 yards away and the bullets most likely wont reach him. Hmm I figure that I am not going to place any value in what this idiot says. He might consider being one of the new useless unarmed security guards placed in the entrance of many schools around the country.. He can take the first three or four shots and then there will only be a few bullets left in the new restrictive magazines…

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    • chrisdev01
      Posted on March 6, 2013 at 10:14am

      Effective range of a 5.56mm round is 500 meters; so 100 yds away is still in the kill zone…

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  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:06pm

    Did you notice the number 333 at bottom of video? 333 is the new 666.
    It’s half of 666. It’s the new way to disguise the number 666.
    The numbers 333 and 13 are popping up everywhere in our daily lives.

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  • 2smart4libs
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:06pm

    I’m not sue how to take this guy.

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    • ZaphodsPlanet
      Posted on March 5, 2013 at 7:53pm

      I do. Here’s a hint. He’s a typical doped up insane liberal, hell bent on terrorizing people. He’s too high (legally or illegally… doesn’t matter does it?) to realize that you’re probably not going to be able to call the representatives of a local elementary school at 1AM in the FREAKING MORNING! But he’s able to get that in to try and scare the crap out of people with kids. He doesn’t give a crap about what he’s talking about, or what’s going on, only that he sounds good to himself while he’s talking. Rush calls these sleeze bag’s “drive by’s” for a reason, which I’m sure you understand. The reason he didn’t flinch is because he’s not connected to any form of reality, and high on something. San Antonio is not normally a war zone last I knew, so it’s not like this guy is next to gunfire all day long like a soldier in the military. Just another mentally deranged liberal.

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    • BostonHarold
      Posted on March 6, 2013 at 8:19pm

      He’s got the discipline of a good gun dog…

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  • wilbstal
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:17pm

    maybe it was all afke reporting just to enhance the Liberal anti Gun BS along with obama the Commie rat

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    • WarMunger_Al
      Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:03pm

      “rushed out of the house, gun in hand, officers opened fire.”
      did they catch this on video, or is this what the police said happened?
      Swat teams have become nothing but execution squads.

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    • txannie
      Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:15pm

      @war….the swat team knew what part of town they were in…you don’t wait to see if someone is going to shoot around there…

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  • spmcintyre
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:03pm

    Could it be that this reporter was ex military? Perhaps he was a reporter embedded with combat troops at some time.

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    • WarMunger_Al
      Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:03pm

      perhaps he grew up in the hood.

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    • sgtguthrie
      Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:04pm

      Doubt he had any military or LE background. I also doubt he was ever an embedded reporter. He said he didn’t know if those were gun shots or if it was SWAT throwing tear gas…LMAO! He was just an idiot!

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  • tonypro
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:56pm

    He couldn’t pass up the opportunity to say “it’s RUMORED there’s an AR 15 ”

    Good little puppet.

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    • yiska8
      Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:14pm

      Sounded like AR-15 fire to me. Light and fast. Then again, the sound may have came from the cops’ weapons.

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    • UBETHECHANGE
      Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:47pm

      That’s what caught my attention too, tonypro. This reporter is such a sock puppet for the gun grabbers.

      @YiskA8 That was the police weapons being fired.

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  • Hippies_Smell_Like_Goat_Cheese
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:49pm

    See, the guy didn’t even flinch. I wonder what would have happened if the guy would have shot two shotgun blasts into the air.

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  • Sargeking
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:31pm

    Another people tragedy and not a hardware issue. I saw a guy in Hollywood Florida in the early 90′s walk out on a balcony, waving a hand gun. The gunman had just arrived from Georgia, earlier that same day.There were about 75 cops all pointing firearms at him. After a short while he fired one round into the air. That was followed by every single officer opening up. The guy tumbled off the balcony with more than 150 hits, through and through. Indeed, this was an incidence of “suicide by cop”.

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    • WarMunger_Al
      Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:05pm

      I don’t believe he just ran out of the house gun in hand, this kind of scenario always seems fishy.

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  • thegodfather
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:27pm

    Hearing Gunfire in the hood is like hearing birds singing in the suburbs. Must be all those conservative white guys doing this.

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:22pm

    I was going to say something….but………….nah…………….not worth it.

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    • theBru
      Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:25pm

      know how you feel…I do that a lot…sometimes it is just better to keep my mouth shut, oops, my hands in my pockets…

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  • Cavallo
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:16pm

    Suicide by cop.

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  • Tom K
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:08pm

    There were reasons the hostage left the suspect eight months prior – she must have forgotten. This was a sad situation and everyone involved will be effected negatively. Sad that those natural evening sounds that are so relaxing are now punctuated with Gun Fire / gun fire so familiar that the reporter hardly reacts. Life in Leftist America.

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    • yiska8
      Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:28pm

      And the Harlandale area of town used to be upper midde class at one time in San Antonio history. It was damn near segregated. Once subsidized housing comes in, it’s all over.

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  • yiska8
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:00pm

    Nice job Marvin! Never seen this guy on the air before, but very cool under fire. Sounds like my neighborhood from Friday to Sunday nights since Sec 8 govt. housing took over. Sometimes the cops show up, sometimes they don’t. These women in SA have poor taste in men.Stories like this are common here. I bet Chief McManus misses the cold,quiet nights back in Minnesota or Ohio.
    Anyway, Marvin, you did great!!

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    • woodyee
      Posted on March 5, 2013 at 3:36pm

      “These women in SA have poor taste in men.”

      No $h1t…”The 34-year-old ex-girlfriend is a Bexar County probation officer. The woman told officers she had recently broken up with Garza and moved out of his house after eight months. On Sunday night, she met him at a bar and had agreed to go home with him.”

      Maybe she’s the type that likes her men a little rough around the edges…stupid bish…

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    • yiska8
      Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:10pm

      @woodyee
      Ha! “Dumb bish” is putting it nicely. This is from generation to generation. There are a ton of them here. I grew up with them. Capable of doing better, but still choosing to make stupid decisions like this and voting for the Kenyan twice and meeting up with their formers boyfriends with violent tendencies. I bet the both of these punched the screen for Uncle Ben. Obstinate, willful stupidity.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 2:54pm

    The woman convinced him she didn’t need to be in the crash,lucky for her the guy was an idiot or she’d be dead.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 2:54pm

    Perhaps he grew up in Chicago ?

    Just another night in the City….

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 2:52pm

    Way too easy. I’ll let it go.

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  • banjarmon
    Posted on March 5, 2013 at 2:48pm

    No court cost…the bad guy taken out!!

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