Kilcer remembers dropping the magazine out of the pistol and throwing it and the firearm away from him. He wonders if the kid participated in his church’s hotrod program. He’d begun to feel sorry for the kid, until he realized he was toting a loaded firearm. He figures the pistol jammed when the kid tried to pull the trigger just as Kilcer grabbed the slide. So I locked the slide back and I look in my palm and it was a. “I felt the round hit my hand and I’m like, Oh shit. So he exerted pressure on the slide until it finally racked back, ejecting a round. Kilcer, 32, about to pounce on a suspected robber. Yuma County Sheriff’s Office photo.īecause the pistol never fired, Kilcer wondered if it was a toy gun. Surveillance footage captured at an Arizona convenience store on Oct. And then I turn around, throw the gun off to the side to me,” Kilcer said. And so I told him, You’re going to fucking prison for this. “This guy’s awfully small, so I asked, I go, How fucking old are you? And he goes, I’m only 14. Arizona authorities say they’re still at large.Īs the fight drained away from the pinned suspect, Kilcer remembers telling gas station employees to call the cops, lock the front door and urge the customers out front to leave. Kilcer didn’t realize the suspect’s buddies fled when the fight broke out. Yeah, there was no fight from him after that point and I kind of backed off, obviously, once I realized there was no more threat and I kind of cooled the jets a little bit.” “ He probably needed to change his drawers. “By the time I had the gun to his head, he turned into a wet dishrag,” Kilcer said. He “held the gun to his temple” like a hostage, in case the youngster’s buddies jumped into the melee. Kilcer eventually wrested the weapon from the kid. Now considered a national hero, Kilcer says he’s just a normal dude who did the right thing at the right time. As all this was happening at frickin’ lightspeed I was counting trigger pulls, and I realized I was pulling a trigger, making attempts to pull the trigger, but everything was just jammed up.” A photo of James Kilcer that a coworker promptly photoshopped for him when the security camera footage went viral. The Marine veteran tried to fire the weapon four times but it never went off. T hey both had their hands on the pistol, but Kilcer said he finally got his finger on the trigger. Kilcer recalls trying to maintain control of the kid’s arm and bend it toward him. What the security video doesn’t capture is the struggle in the back of the store for control of the pistol.
Kilcer thinks he might’ve broken the youngster’s nose when the sack socked his face. “But I didn’t even realize at that point, like I had no recollection, that my keys were in my hand, that my bag was attached to me somehow.”
“I actually tried to grab his head and neck, like I was going to take control of the gun - which I got - and try to take control of the head,” Kilcer said. He wants everyone to know that convicted billionaire sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein didn’t commit suicide in his jail cell. James “Killer” Kilcer is shown here in this undated photograph shortly after slaying a feisty Arizona rattlesnake with a land trident.
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Kilcer then followed with his right hand - which was still holding a grocery sack full of Gatorade and Monster Energy drinks. Video surveillance footage shows Kilcer pouncing on the kid’s pistol, slapping it away from himself and the cashier and toward the coolers lining the back of the store. He remembers thinking, Take one more step, mother fucker. Kilcer told Coffee or Die that he’d turned to see who ripped the door open and spotted a pistol in the hand of a hooded 14-year-old boy.
Three suspects entered the convenience store, at least one of them armed with a handgun, according to the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office. North Frontage Road Chevron gas station on his way to work at the US Army Yuma Proving Ground. 20, when the former military tactical air operations and air defense systems technician stopped at the E.
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