An El Paso man was accused and arrested in a wild gun escapade inside the Airway Boulevard house the place he allegedly threatened people and fired gunshots into the air sooner than crashing his car.
El Paso police arrested John Glen Coates, 43, in an incident on Friday afternoon that began inside the Craw Oyster Bar at Airway Plaza and resulted in a wreck two miles away on the intersection of Montana Avenue and Hawkins Boulevard, a prosecutor well-known at a bond listening to.
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Coates, of the far East Side, was booked on bills of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, discharge of a firearm, unlawful carrying of a weapon in a prohibited place, and making a terroristic threat.
John Glen Coates was arrested by El Paso police for allegedly threatening people with a handgun and firing gunshots inside the Airway Boulevard house of East-Central El Paso on Friday, Nov. 8, 2024.
Coates is retired from the U.S. Army, the place he served 24 years, and provides with PTSD and completely different psychological effectively being factors, Edward Hernandez, a deputy public safety authorized skilled, well-known at a Sunday teleconference bond listening to whereas asking for a lower bond amount.
“It’s not alleged he actually harmed anybody,” Hernandez talked about. “He does suffer mental health issues that (are) based on his long-term military service during 20 years of American wars.”
During the listening to, Assistant District Attorney John Briggs commented that Coates could face additional assault bills in publicly dangerous acts that had 911 calls coming in from not lower than 5 utterly completely different locations.
Gun threat allegedly made in El Paso bar
The trouble started Friday afternoon, Nov. 8, contained within the Craw Oyster Bar at 1160 Airway Blvd. inside the Airway Plaza house of bars and consuming locations in East-Central El Paso, Briggs talked about.
According to a case summary given by Briggs on the listening to, a ruckus started when Coates made a comment about the best way wherein someone was dressed and “causes a bit of a commotion” contained within the Craw Oyster Bar.
During the argument, Coates allegedly grabbed at his waist telling of us that he had a gun. It is in opposition to the regulation in Texas to carry a gun in a bar.
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When the bartender instructed Coates that he needs to go away, “he tells her she will be the next person to have her brains blown out,” Briggs talked about, together with that the bartender was positioned in fear after she apparently seen the gun tucked into his waistband. The bar supervisor and completely different prospects escorted Coates out of the bar and known as 911.
Right afterward, there was one different 911 identify a few man with a gun matching Coates’ description arguing with a woman subsequent to the Ojos Locos Sports Cantina shut by within the an identical plaza.
Gunshots exterior Jack inside the Box
Those emergency calls have been then adopted by 911 calls about a person firing a gun up inside the air out of a black Jeep Gladiator inside the parking zone of the Jack inside the Box restaurant at Airway Boulevard and Montana Avenue, Briggs well-known. Police found 5 bullet casings inside the parking zone.
A girl then known as 911 to report that she was driving inside the Montana Avenue and Boeing Drive house when she was just about hit by a Jeep that ran a purple delicate. The woman honked on the completely different driver, who then allegedly pulled out a gun and pointed it at her, so she backed off, Briggs talked about.
Crash at Montana Avenue and Hawkins Boulevard
The Jeep continued eastbound sooner than allegedly working a purple delicate and colliding with one different automotive on the intersection of Montana Avenue and Hawkins Boulevard. The Jeep turned disabled inside the wreck, Briggs talked about.
Responding to the emergency calls, police first went to the accident scene, the place officers found the crashed Jeep and arrested Coates.
A girl passenger who was with Coates was found by police inside the Circle Okay retailer at that intersection, Briggs talked about. The woman instructed officers that she had been inside the accident and that there had been a gun involved. A silver 1911-style handgun was current in her backpack, Briggs talked about.
Magistrate select lowers bond amount
Coates was initially jailed on an entire bond of $125,000 which at Sunday’s listening to was lowered by Magistrate Judge Antonio Aun to $97,500, along with $55,000 beneath a personal recognizance that doesn’t require money.
The select ordered a variety of launch provisions, along with barring Coates from using drugs and alcohol, requiring random drug testing, prohibiting him from possessing any weapons, firearms or ammunition and banning him from coming inside 200 yards of the Craw Oyster Bar.
El Paso County Jail info current Coates was launched on bond on Sunday.
Airway Plaza is an identical location the place two people have been killed and 4 others have been wounded allegedly by two Fort Bliss troopers who fired proper right into a crowd exterior a bar remaining yr. The capital murder case is presently scheduled to go to trial in February.
An El Paso police patrol automotive at towards the regulation scene in El Paso, Texas. File art work.
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