DALLAS — A Dallas man has pleaded guilty to capturing at an ATF agent in an obvious are compatible of highway rage, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas introduced.
Michael Fagan, 30, was once charged in April 2023 with assaulting or impeding a federal officer and was once later indicted in May 2023. On Oct. 31, 2023, he pleaded guilty to one depend of assaulting a federal officer the usage of a dangerous or bad weapon prior to U.S. Magistrate Judge Irma Carrillo Ramirez.
According to plea paperwork, on April 6, an ATF agent spotted an SUV stopped at a crimson mild at the intersection of Garland Road and Gaston Avenue. The ATF agent stated he seen the driving force, later recognized as Fagan, throughout the car “yelling and flailing his arms.”
The paperwork said that the ATF agent believed Fagan would possibly had been experiencing an emergency, so the agent rolled down his entrance passenger window and requested if Fagan was once k. That’s when Fagan opened his driver-side door and started yelling incoherently at the agent, who prompt Fagan to get again into his car. Fagan then re-entered his car, leaned over the passenger seat and became to face the agent keeping a black semiautomatic pistol in his hand, file stated.
Court paperwork stated that the agent ducked down underneath the dashboard of his car and heard a gun discharge. The agent then reportedly drew his weapon and fired 3 photographs, hitting Fagan as soon as.
Fagan fled the scene to catch up with his female friend, who known as 911 to file he have been shot and took him to Baylor health center, officers stated. Fagan was once later arrested at the health center after he was once admitted.
After his guilty plea, officers stated Fagan faces up to twenty years in federal jail.
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