The boys in cellblock C are gonna like this fish.
Posted on 6/26/2007, 3:09:30 AM by elhombrelibre
When Eric Fullerton stopped by a Salt Lake City Arby's restaurant earlier this morning, he only wanted to grab a bite to eat.
He ended up the hero in a drama that began about an hour earlier with the murder of a Department of Corrections officer and a high-speed police pursuit through the city.
Police later praised the 59-year-old for taking on the desperate suspect 32 years his junior, about 8 inches taller and many pounds heavier.
"He's the hero in this thing," said Salt Lake City police Lt. Mike Ross. "He wrestled the gun away."
At about 8:25 a.m., 27-year-old Curtis Michael Allgier pulled into the Arby's at 1685 S. Redwood Road in the blue Ford SUV he had hijacked at the University of Utah Hospital after allegedly killing 22-year Corrections Department veteran Stephen Anderson, 60, of Bluffdale.
Customer Jeff Mousley said that as he was running out of the building, he saw Fullerton tackle Allgier to the ground.
As the men wrestled, Allgier allegedly stabbed Fullerton with what he remembers to be a "sharp object" that left a deep, vertical wound on the right side of his neck that required several stitches.
Fullerton, who said he had experience in the military, staggered outside of the restaurant and was taken to the hospital, said Salt Lake City
Police Sgt. Rich Brede. Hours later, the Salt Lake City resident came back to the scene, still in the brown scrubs he had changed into at the hospital, and retraced his steps for police throughout the Arby's.
Although still in shock, Fullerton said he didn't feel like he had done anything extraordinary.
"I don't feel like I'm a hero," he said. "I don't know why I did it, I just did what I had to do."
Fullerton drove off and said he was going back to work.
The boys in cellblock C are gonna like this fish.
A real man.....There still out there...
Don’t mess with Vets no matter how old you think they are and how young you are, it ain’t smart to mess with a Vet.
Wrong pic. He’s got tats all over him.
Don’t mess with the Grey Hair set, most are Vets.
Fullerton on right.
Allgier the perp.
i don’t think like is the correct opperative word here
This guy makes me proud. Take a look at the unassuming man and realize he had King-Kong-sized cojones.
Like he could hide … nobody would notice the Tats.
Oops, you’re right! I got the hijacker in the next county over (Elko county, NV)!
Mucho Grande Cojones
Man Ping
Makes ya proud. Let that be a lesson for all the punks.
Forgive my using the FRWN list for this but thought you all could use a little smile.
Understand … put down several just by my “eye to eye look”. Been to war, survived … you aint gonn’a intimidate me. Most are cowards, if not, then I die. Will not flinch or be intimidated by trash.
There is a better version of what happened on the paper’s site in “related” box.
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