Sheriff Brittney Brown answered a domestic disturbance call. A domestic partner was holding a woman at knife point. Sheriff Brown arrived before her partner. Long before her partner it should be emphasized. The female victim was being stabbed, Sheriff Brown moved into position and Tasered the assailant (that wasn’t my first word choice); he shirked the Taser barbs off as if they were nothing. He lunged at Sheriff Brown trying to kill her with the knife. Sheriff Brown without hesitation or second thought mixed it with the armed assailant. He knifed her in the back calf as the life and death grappling played out on the ground. Sheriff Brown subdued the stoned assailant much larger than her and handcuffed him. Officers from another group arrived to assist at the end of the struggle - her partner had still not arrived [I emphasize].
Sheriff Brown is a single mother, raised here in Austin by our on Angie Altum who is a driving force in our club. Let it suffice to say Angie raised her to be courageous, not back down and generally be a bad ass. Those of you that know Angie well can certainly understand where she inherited her fearlessness. Sheriff Brown did not hesitate, attacked, and saved the victims life – while withholding the need to use her own firearm to kill the assailant.
All lives mattered: the victims, Sheriff Browns and even the undeserving cowardly assailant.
For this Heroic Meritorious Valor Central Texas Wildlife Legacy is awarding $2,200.00. Plus $1,000 donated by founding member George McGee, owner of Austin Silent Market, Inc. and another $1,000 donated by David Sefton Tax Consulting. The $2,200.00 was raised at Aden’ & Amy’s Lasseter Lasseter Ranch at our Wildlife Legacy Fall Pigeon Shoot. Thank you to all of the generous donors towards this award.
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By David Sefton
