Kenny Wayne Davlin, 39, was listed in good condition Saturday evening at Good Shepherd Medical Center in Longview where he was being treated for wounds suffered when he was shot by Kilgore Fire Marshal Brandon Bigos, reports news-journal.com.
Kilgore police said Davlin was shot after pointing a rifle at Kilgore firefighters responding to a fire early Saturday.
“The house over there had caught on fire and the guy across the street named Kenny was being nosy and had his gun behind his back” neighbor Matt Abbott said later. “They (firefighters) had said something to him about it and his wife was trying to get him to come inside”
Davlin scuffled with his wife, who apparently was trying to disarm him, Kilgore police said. Bigos attempted to break up the fight and take Davlin, then armed with a handgun, into custody. But Davlin ran back into his house, retrieved a rifle and pointed it at firefighters still working the fire scene, who took cover behind their fire trucks.
“He ran inside and got an AR-15 and that’s when the fire marshal shot him,” Abbott said.
The incident began when the Kilgore Fire Department responded about 1 a.m. Saturday to a house fire in the 1500 block of Peach Street. Police said the house, which was unoccupied, was fully engulfed when firefighters arrived.
As they worked, firefighters spotted Davlin walking in the street with a handgun behind his back. According to police, witnesses said he “appeared to be very intoxicated.”
An investigation of the incident was being conducted by Texas Rangers and the Kilgore Police Department, said Kilgore police Assistant Chief Roman Roberson. Criminal charges against Davlin were pending.
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