Deputy fires ‘1 in a billion’ shot into suspect’s gun barrel

Before he lost consciousness, Marquez managed to wound one of the suspects, who was later arrested when he needed treatment.

The suspects opened fire hitting Marquez twice in the abdomen and once in the shoulder.

“I’d say that’s probably one in a million shot”, says Graham.

Deputy Marquez exchanged gunfire with the suspects.

Another of Marquez’s bullets hit Meshesha’s gun, traveling straight down the barrel and disabling it.

A Jefferson County sheriff’s deputy in Colorado who was involved in an off-duty shooting has been cleared.

Deputy Jose Marquez was walking through an apartment complex on January 26, when two armed men approached him with their guns drawn, reported Fox 31.

“I further find that Deputy Marquez’s actions were justified and he did not violate Colorado law”.

The police office said one of the men told him to “give it up” and pulled out a gun.

Marquez has not yet returned to duty due to his injuries.

Incredibly, the bullet went down the barrel of the suspect’s gun and rendered the weapon temporarily inoperable, according to the Denver Channel.

“Deputy Marquez reasonably believed that his life was in danger and acted reasonably in shooting Meshesha, and that he used an appropriate level of physical force”, Orman wrote. “Thus, we can conclude that Meshesha fired three shots before this happened, based on the shell casings found at the scene, and that he was pointing his gun at Deputy Marquez when Deputy Marquez fired the shot that hit the gun, otherwise the shot from Deputy Marquez would not have gone down the barrel”. The shots fractured ribs and damaged his intestines, colon and liver, officials said.