Trade Your Guns For Food?
When Jacquelyn Weaver heard that Fort Worth and Dallas Police would be buying back guns from community members on Saturday, she thought it was a great idea. The 18-year-old never expected she and her brother would end up dodging bullets themselves.
It happened just after 3 a.m. This morning. The Weavers went with four of their friends to the Whataburger on Cherry Lane in Fort Worth.
Jacquelyn says two men in their early 20’s sitting on a curb in front of the fast food restaurant confronted the group. Words were exchanged, then she says a third man in his mid-20’s got out of a four-door, white sedan and opened fire with a silver handgun.
About 12 shots rang out. Many hit the wall of the restaurant. One bullet grazed the arm of Anthony Young, 20, Fort Worth.
Two of the bullets hit Colt Weaver, 20, in the leg. Another bullet entered his back and punctured his lung.
“He like fell to the ground real slow and I ran over there and said: That’s ok. I’m here. I’m here Colt,” explains Jacquelyn. “I got there as quick as I could and I saw him laying face down in a puddle of blood,” says Colt’s father, James Weaver.
City leaders in Dallas and Fort Worth say that’s the kind of violence they’re trying to prevent with the gun buy-back programs held today in both cities.
“Wholeheartedly I know that it will. I think that people will think twice about guns, about using a gun,” says Pastor Jack Crane of Truevine Baptist Church in Fort Worth.
“Collectively together we’re going to take 350, maybe 400 guns off the streets of both Dallas and Fort Worth,” says Dallas City Councilman Dwaine Caraway.
Jacquelyn Weaver says the $50 grocery card given to each person who turned in a gun is a small price to pay to make sure others don’t suffer like her brother.
The Western Hills High School graduate is expected to survive, but the former standout wrestler just as easily could have been killed. “It’d keep more people from not being in the ICU,” says Jacquelyn.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the Fort Worth Police Department.
Source: CBS 11 Tv
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