An off-duty Utah officer was on vacation in Montana when he found himself in the middle of an armed robbery.
KUTV reports that Jeremy Barnes wasted no time jumping into action, wrestling with the gun-wielding suspect and holding him until help arrived. What happened in that Dillon, Montana, grocery store has the town talking.
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“He’s a top-rate, class-act guy. Didn’t want any, you know, any notoriety for it, nothing like that,” said Dillon Police Chief Don Guiberson. “Here is an individual that was out shopping with his family and on vacation. Ends up wrestling the guy, gets shot at, getting a gun put in his ribs.”
Barnes is an officer with the Utah Department of Public Safety.
Barnes stopped with his wife at the store on a Sunday to pick up some Tylenol and coffee. At the same time, police said a man jumped the counter of the pharmacy and, armed with a gun, demanded drugs. A shot was fired but the bullet missed Barnes and nobody inside the store was hit.
