Posted on 10/11/2005 12:56:40 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Armed with a bow and arrow, he's arrested after seizing a freight engine in Montclair, police say.
A man armed with a bow and arrow who commandeered a Union Pacific freight train stopped in Montclair on Sunday night was shot and wounded by police, authorities said.
Juventino Vallejo-Camerena, 43, of Pomona climbed onto one of the train's two locomotives about 10:45 p.m. and threatened the two crew members with a bow and arrow, Union Pacific spokesman Mark Davis said.
The engineer and conductor fled the train, which was stopped at a signal, and cut off fuel to the engine with an emergency button outside the cab. They were not harmed, Davis said.
Alone in the cab, Vallejo-Camerena refused to drop his bow and arrow after Montclair police officers ordered him to do so, said Capt. Keith Jones, spokesman for the department.
He nocked and pointed the arrow at officers on the scene, near Monte Vista Avenue in western San Bernardino County, and threatened to take over the train, Jones said. Police then shot Vallejo-Camerena in the wrist and upper arm, according to a Montclair Police report.
The attempted train-jacking was "the first time I remember in 25 years something like this ever happening," Davis said. "How many times does somebody come and take over a train with a bow and arrow?"
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Unreal!
When owning a bow and arrow are a crime, only the criminals will have bows and arrows.....
Did he ask where the mail car and safe were?.............
This here fellar role played too much in his life.
I'll bet he's 3rd-generation Irish.
I read this here at FR somewhere last night, so you are posting a repeat.
Got shot in the arms and wrist if this was the same story, but he wasn't killed.
But of course! And the poor thing was ONLY trying to get back home!!
Stuck on Stupid...
Bet that's what he said after being shot twice. But in Spanish.
Never bring a bow and arrow to a gun fight.
I did a search....honest!
Don't bring a knife to a gunfight.
The guys sounds like a Darwin candidate who got lucky and was only wounded.
No mention by the idiot MSM whether he is an illegal alien.
You get one guess!
I did a search....honest!
I don't know why people complain that a thread is a repeat because the search engine here on FR is quite lame.
It's Bush's fault.
I must add, most of the time, I would miss some good stories if it weren't for the occasional repost.
Indeed it is.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=any;o=score;s=Man%20Shot%20Trying%20to%20Hijack%20a%20Train-Armed%20with%20bow%20%26%20arrow-seized%20freight%20train%20in%20Montclair%2C%20CA
I copied and pasted the title into the search on titles. I get both articles listed 1st and 2nd. What is difficult about that? What does make it difficult is people making up their own titles. At least it is from two different news sources.
Anyone that crazy would probably shoot the arrow, too.
Of course, since this is CA, he'll probably be sent to counseling, and will be on the street by the end of the week.
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