Posted on 09/08/2022 6:42:14 PM PDT by bitt
'If I didn't have my gun with me, everyone in the house would have died,' Mendez says
An Arizona man who was shot in the head while attending a Fourth of July party with his family this summer is speaking out about how he was able to thwart the shooter from killing more people with his concealed carry firearm.
"My back was turned. I heard the first gunshot and that's what made me, kind of turn my head ... But by the time I even was able to look and see what was going on, a bullet already had struck the side of my face," Raul Mendez recounted to Fox News Digital in a phone interview Tuesday.
Gunshots rang out at a home in Surprise, Arizona, on the evening of July 3 as Mendez, his two daughters and his seven-month pregnant wife gathered with friends and other families to celebrate the founding of America. About 30 people were gathered in the home, including young children, as the group celebrated with fireworks and food, Mendez told Fox News Digital.
A neighbor of the man hosting the party soon joined, and mingled with the group despite not being close friends with anyone there, according to Mendez. That neighbor was later identified by police as 46-year-old Jason Hunt, the sole suspect in the case who opened fire unprovoked on the families and partiers, police said in July according to the Arizona Republic.
Two of Mendez’s friends, Conrradito Ochoa Navarro, 41, and Carl Dinora, 38, were killed in the incident. Four others, including Mendez, were left seriously injured.
As Hunt and other partiers had a bite to eat in the kitchen, the suspect pulled out a gun and began firing on the crowd, sending everyone fleeing, Mendez recounted.
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Raul Mendez was interviewed on Tucker tonight..
the big question is WHY wasn’t this national news when it happened??
2 minute NRA video with Raul...
https://www.kold.com/2022/07/04/least-1-dead-after-shooting-leaves-multiple-people-injured-surprise/
But the Governor of New York said that the theory of a good guy with a gun “is over”.
Just saw him on Tucker. Should be Raul Menendez day. Sorry for spelling issues if any. 🙏
Surprise, Arizona. That’s a surprise.
What happened to Hunt, the shooter? Story doesn’t say?
Why did he do this? He was in the kitchen eating and then shoots his neighbor and kills 3 guys at the party as well? What the heck?
I hope he’s ‘done’.
He dead.
4 shots to the chest.
I saw they wrote that but did not say if it killed him. Being the other guy had a shot to the head I figured maybe he lived too.
Thanks.
4 slugs to the chest.
Sent him to his rest.
No more, no less.
Agree……first I heard of it
Always wanted to meet the neighbors. Well maybe not.
I’m guessing he had a thing against Mexicans.
Always conceal carry....always.
Yeah. I thought that too. But it does make you wonder how this guy thought he could go into a neighbor’s house and kill everyone and then go home to his house next door and continue living his life like nothing happened.
The whole west side of Phoenix is Mexican. I used to live over there with my father and brother years ago and it was already going that way. Maryvale a section over there back then was loaded with Mexican gangs. There are shootings over on the West side of Phoenix every day now. Gangs, drugs, alcohol related.
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