{"id":14308,"date":"2012-09-23T20:15:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T00:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=14308"},"modified":"2012-09-23T20:15:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T00:15:08","slug":"houston-cop-shoots-kills-wheelchair-bound-double-amputee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/09\/houston-cop-shoots-kills-wheelchair-bound-double-amputee\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston cop shoots, kills wheelchair-bound double amputee"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14309\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/afp-photo-stan-honda-n.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14309\" title=\"afp-photo-stan-honda.n\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/afp-photo-stan-honda-n.jpg?resize=370%2C277\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AFP Photo \/ Stan Honda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">A police officer in Houston has shot and killed a double amputee in a wheelchair after the man threatened his partner with what turned out to be a pen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00adThe shooting happened in a group home, the owner of which called the police saying the man was causing a disturbance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Police representatives said that when two officers arrived, the disabled man cornered one policeman and threatened him with a metal object.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Another officer opened fire, saying was forced to take action, &#8220;fearing for his partner&#8217;s safety and his own safety&#8221;, after the man refused to calm down and remain still, police told AP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Later, the metal object that the one-armed, one-legged, wheelchair-bound man was waving turned out to be a pen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Police revealed that the dead man\u2019s name was Brian Claunch, aged in his 40s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The shooting officer was identified as Matthew Jacob Marin, who has been a serving policeman for five years. He was placed on three-day administrative leave, which is a standard procedure for all shootings linked with officers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Marin was reportedly involved in another fatal suspect shooting three years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The owner of the group home, John Garcia, told the Houston Chronicle that the deceased, Brian Claunch, had been living at the place for approximately a year-and-a-half, and was mentally ill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&#8220;He sometimes would go off a bit, but you just ignore it,&#8221; Garcia told the Houston Chronicle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Claunch lost his arm and leg after being hit by a train, he had told Garcia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/news\/houston-police-shoot-amputee-786\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer in Houston has shot and killed a double amputee in a wheelchair after the man threatened his partner with what turned out..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/afp-photo-stan-honda.n_14308_0ec69.jpg?fit=370%2C277&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}