A quick-acting EMS provider is being praised for disarming a woman who allegedly took out a hidden handgun and shot twice inside a Houston hospital on Tuesday.
Glendar Johnson-Jackson was arrested and charged with felony deadly conduct and a misdemeanor count of unlawful carry of weapon in a prohibited place, ABC 13 reports.
Harris County Emergency Corps. EMS had brought Johnson-Jackson to HCA Conroe for a mental health evaluation and an emergency detention order.
Police said she was on a hallway gurney with her arms and legs secured but somehow managed to retrieve a small firearm from under her dress.
“One of the HCEC EMS attendants took immediate action and disarmed (Johnson-Jackson),” Conroe police wrote in a press release.
Johnson-Jackson received medical clearance and was then booked into Montgomery County Jail.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office has started an internal affairs and Office of the Inspector General investigation into how the woman was able to slip the gun past officers.