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Linden, Texas, police officer Sherry Gillespie was attempting to detain a suspect in the parking lot of a supermarket after a routine traffic stop on May 11, 2003, when the man began pushing and shoving her. Customer Patrick Coughlan, who was about to enter the supermarket, noticed the scuffle. He asked a store cashier to call police, then ran to assist the beleaguered officer. When he noticed that her assailant, Andrew Gray, was trying to grab her gun, he wrested the weapon from Gray and ordered him to "freeze." Gray wisely did so, ...