[Breitbart] Police in San Antonio arrested an illegal alien after he allegedly shot a former Marine working as a security guard in a bar. The Marine, working as a security guard in a bar, is fighting for his life after he attempted to disarm the illegal alien.
More than a month later, Jimmy Friesenhahn, a 44-year-old Marine combat veteran, is fighting for his life in a San Antonio hospital after being shot while working as a security guard at the El Patio Sports Bar early on the morning of May 4. Police arrested Wilmer Vladmir Ortega Ruiz, a 29-year-old man who entered the U.S. illegally, for the shooting, News4SA reported.
As the suspect entered the sports bar, Friesenhahn attempted to search him for weapons. The two men struggled after the Marine allegedly found a handgun in the man’s pocket.
During the struggle, police say Ortega Ruiz shot Friesenhahn multiple times, striking him twice in his ballistic vest and once in the neck. The neck wound left the 14-year Marine Corps veteran paralyzed from a spinal cord injury and unable to speak, the article reports. Following the May 4 shooting, he has undergone six surgeries.
The New York Post reports that Friesenhahn’s family says Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales’s Office is “soft-peddling the charges” after they reportedly let the attacker walk free on four prior arrests.
Friesenhahn is the father of a five-month-old girl and served in the Marine Corps for 14 years — including a combat tour in Iraq.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers placed an immigration hold on Ortega Ruiz due to his lengthy criminal history and record of no-shows on court appearances, the Post report states.
The New York Post reports:
Ortego Ruiz was first arrested in San Antonio and charged with a DWI in October 2020, according to court records. He was let go on a personal recognizance bond, but failed to show in court.
The Bexar County District Attorney’s office then downgraded the DWI charge to obstructing a passageway.
Ortega Ruiz pleaded guilty to that charge, but violated the terms of his probation and was arrested for a second time in August 2023.
He was let go again after posting a $1,500 bond amount and failed to show up in court for a later hearing.
The illegal migrant got collared a third time in September 2023 and bonded out for $1,500, again failing to show in court at a later hearing.
He was then arrested for a fourth time in November 2024 and sentenced to time served nearly three weeks later.
Ortega Ruiz was also allegedly the center of an assault investigation in which his girlfriend reported he physically attacked her, but he had fled the scene before cops arrived, law enforcement sources told The Post.
Friesenhahn’s brother-in-law Emmanuel Martinez told The Post, “Jimmy’s sacrifice saved people because there’s stories that the guy was going to go inside and do something in that place.”
His family set up a GoFundMe page to help raise money for Friesenhahn’s ongoing medical expenses and recovery.
As an illegal alien, Ortega Ruiz was prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm. Texas law also prohibits carrying a gun into a bar.
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[Regnum] On June 8, a passenger plane crashed in Tennessee, USA. There were 16 to 20 people on board, local authorities reported on the social network X.
The Highway Patrol is assisting Tullahoma police at the crash site on Old Shelbyville Road. Some of the victims were airlifted to nearby hospitals.
There is no exact information about the number of victims.
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[Regnum] An exceptionally large plasma emission occurred in the region of the Sun's south pole. This was reported on the website of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute and the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Scientists recorded the emission at about 11:00 Moscow time on June 8. According to experts, the cloud of rare size and density was formed as a result of the destabilization of a giant solar prominence. Since it was located on the far side of the Sun, it was impossible to observe it from Earth.
It is noted that the moment the prominence rose above the edge of the Sun was recorded by several space telescopes operating in Earth orbit.
"The ejection will remain in the field of view of spacecraft for about another day. This will allow us to determine its trajectory much more accurately, which, however, will only become clear in all its details by the end of the day," the report says.
Experts noted that globally the Sun continues to demonstrate the presence of large reserves of explosive energy.
[WSJ] Deception, infiltration and spycraft have played a major role in warfare at least since the ancient Greeks were said to have gifted a wooden horse to the citizens of Troy.
In more recent times, such operations rarely had a strategic effect, but the spectacular operations of Israeli intelligence against Hezbollah in Lebanon last fall and of Ukraine against Russia’s strategic bomber fleet last weekend have brought them back to the forefront of conflict in the 21st century.
Both showed how technological advances—such as drones, communications networks and smaller but more powerful batteries and explosives—can potentially alter the course of a war when they are coupled with superior tradecraft.
"Technology today allows you many new possibilities: There is a larger surface where you can actually detect places where your enemy is vulnerable due to the fact that you can bypass a lot of physical barriers that in the past you couldn’t bypass," said Eyal Tsir Cohen, a former senior division director of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service.
Yet, he added, many of the same technologies can also empower one’s opponents. "It always works both ways—it depends on which side is more sophisticated in exploiting the vulnerabilities of the other side," Cohen said. "You need good people to work with technology—technology rides on the shoulders of the human factor and not vice versa."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
