A man who survived El Paso's shooting last month was arrested at the White House on Monday and police questioned the heroic story he shared in an interview with CNN.
Christopher Grant was arrested a few moments before he was about to be honored during a ceremony at the White House that paid tribute to the bravery of a few people who reacted to the shooting in El Paso and Dayton, reports Time. The US Secret Service (USSS) confirmed to the publication that it had collected a White House visitor who had received a warrant for arrest but refused to name the person.
"It was later determined that as long as the arrest warrant was pending, the agency that issued it would not be extradited, by which time the individual was released. of the secret service guard, "said a spokesman for the agency in a statement.
Washington DC police, however, identified the individual as Grant and Sgt. Enrique Carrillo, a spokesman for the El Paso Police Department (EPPD), added that the man had received a warrant for arrest and that he was a "fugitive from the justice". This mandate does not come from the EPPD, according to Time.
In the days following the August 3 shooting in El Paso and causing 22 deaths, Grant drew the country's attention after telling CNN's Chris Cuomo that he had distracted the shooter into him. throwing bottles. Grant, who was talking about his hospital bed at the time, said that he was in the fruit and vegetable department of a Walmart when he saw the gunman – A 21-year-old Caucasian man from Allen, Texas – stand in the parking lot and open fire towards the buyers.
"I thought to myself," It's crazy, "he recalls." So, to deter him, I started throwing bottles at random. "
Grant stated that he had been shot and wounded in the process and that he was later rescued by a US Customs and Border Protection officer.
"When I was hit, it was as if someone were putting a grenade in the back and pulling the pin," he said. "It's basically what it was."
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A man hangs up a sign "El Paso Strong" at an improvised memorial at the scene of a mass shot in a shopping complex on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
A woman cries when she goes to a makeshift memorial at the site of a mass shooting in a shopping complex on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
A woman bends over to write a message on a cross in front of an improvised memorial at the scene of a mass shooting in a commercial complex on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
People crowd around an improvised memorial at the scene of a mass shot in a commercial complex on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
A woman is reflected in an image while she watches an improvised memorial at the site of a mass shot in a shopping complex on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. Saturday's mass shootings at the Walmart killed several people and injured more than two dozen. (AP Photo / John Locher)
People visit a makeshift memorial at the scene of a mass shot in a commercial complex on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
In imagining the image of a video in April 2019, migrants must go through a border agency in El Paso, Texas, United States, which fell to the skin after leaving Mexico. (AP Foto / Cedar Attanasio)
Flags fly over crosses on a makeshift memorial near the site of a mass shootout in a commercial complex on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. The border town shaken by a massacre last weekend in a Walmart has absorbed even more grief on Monday as the death toll rose and was preparing for a visit by President Donald Trump following the anger of the locals. El Paso and local Democratic leaders who say that he is not welcome and that he should stay out of the way. (AP Photo / John Locher)
People visit a makeshift memorial at the scene of a mass shot in a commercial complex on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
Gloria Garces is on August 6, 2019 – Memorial to the Dead, famous for shooting in a mall in El Paso, Texas. (AP Foto / John Locher)
People visit a makeshift memorial at the scene of a mass shot in a commercial complex on Tuesday August 6, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
People visit a makeshift memorial at the scene of a mass shot in a commercial complex on Tuesday August 6, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
Catalina Saenz wipes tears from her face as she travels to a makeshift memorial near the place where the shooting took place in a shopping complex on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. A list of those who died during the Walmart weekend shootings shows that most of the victims had the Latin American family name and included a German national. (AP Photo / John Locher)
A woman leaves flowers on an improvised memorial at the scene of a mass shot in a commercial complex on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
Gloria Garces kneels in front of the crosses in front of an improvised memorial near the scene of a mass shootout at a shopping complex on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
Rene Aguilar and Jackie Flores pray in front of a makeshift memorial for victims of the Saturday shooting at the El Paso Mall in Texas on Sunday, August 4, 2019. (AP Photo / Andres Leighton)
Catalina Saenz wipes tears from her face as she travels to a makeshift memorial near the place where the shooting took place in a shopping complex on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
People crowd around a makeshift memorial near the scene of the mass shootings in a shopping complex on Monday, August 5, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
People attend a candlelight vigil for victims of a shootout at a shopping complex this weekend, Monday, August 5, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
A man is crying next to a cross on a makeshift memorial near the place where a mass shootout occurred in a commercial complex on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. The border town shaken by a massacre last weekend in a Walmart has absorbed even more grief on Monday as the death toll rose and was preparing for a visit by President Donald Trump following the anger of the locals. El Paso and local Democratic leaders who say that he is not welcome and that he should stay out of the way. (AP Photo / John Locher)
A man is crying next to a cross on a makeshift memorial near the place where a mass shootout occurred in a commercial complex on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. The border town shaken by a massacre last weekend in a Walmart has absorbed even more grief on Monday as the death toll rose and was preparing for a visit by President Donald Trump following the anger of the locals. El Paso and local Democratic leaders who say that he is not welcome and that he should stay out of the way. (AP Photo / John Locher)
People attend a candlelight vigil for victims of a massive shootout this weekend in a commercial complex on Monday, August 5, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
People attend a candlelight vigil for victims of a massive shootout this weekend in a commercial complex on Monday, August 5, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
People attend a candlelight vigil for victims of a massive shootout this weekend in a shopping complex on Monday, August 5, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
Angie Attaguile lays her head on her husband, Ray Attaguile's shoulder, as they embrace their children during a candlelight vigil for the victims of a massive shootout on the week-end in a commercial complex, Monday, August 5, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
Personalities visited on an improvised altar on Monday, August 5, 2019 and a month of Masacre and a mall in El Paso, Texas. (AP Foto / John Locher)
Members of the American High School football team visit the site of a mass shooting that took place this weekend in a commercial complex on Monday, August 5, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. The team went to hang a banner that read "El Paso Strong". (AP Photo / John Locher)
Members of the El Paso Americas High School High School Football Team sit on Monday, August 5, 2019 as they head to the site of the weekend's mass shooting. in a shopping complex in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
Christina Pipkin cries as she travels to an improvised memorial on Monday, August 5, 2019, at the site of a mass shot in a shopping complex in El Paso, Texas. "It's hard to see, it's heartbreaking," said Pipkin about his visit to the memorial. (AP Photo / John Locher)
Members of the El Paso Americas High School High School Football Team carry a "El Paso Strong" sign near the mass shooting venue that took place this weekend in a complex commercial, Monday, August 5, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
Members of the Americas High School High School football team in El Paso display the "El Paso Strong" sign near the location of the mass shoot last weekend in a commercial complex on Monday, August 5, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
Mayte Santiesteban visits an autographed cross on the scene of the mass shooting in a commercial complex on Monday, August 5, 2019, at the cross of the aunt of her best friend killed during the shooting. (AP Photo / John Locher)
Daphne Rosas, a former student of Professor Elsa Mendoza de la Mora, one of the victims of the shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, shows her class photo with Mendoza in the center, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Monday, August 5, 2019. The Mexican government declared that it considered that the shooting that killed eight of its citizens was an "act of terrorism" against the Mexicans and hoped that this would entail changes in US law on firearms. (AP Photo / Christian Chavez)
Oral personalities of an improvised altar in the honor of a visionary of a massacre at a mall in El Paso, Texas on Monday, August 5, 2019. (AP Foto / John Locher)
Greg Zanis is preparing crosses for victims of a mass shot in a commercial complex on Monday, August 5, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
Maylin Reyes, right, and Isela Reyes prepare to hang a Mexican flag at an improvised memorial site near the scene of a shooting at a commercial complex on Monday, August 5, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
Rene Aguilar and Jackie Flores hold a memorial for a shooter in El Paso, Texas, UK on August 4, 2019. (AP Photo / Andres Leighton)
Greg Zanis is preparing crosses for victims of a mass shot in a commercial complex on Monday, August 5, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
People are comforting themselves at a vigil for victims of Saturday's shooting at a shopping complex on Sunday, August 4, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
Cathe Hill wipes tears in her eyes during a vigil in aid of the victims of Saturday's shooting at a commercial complex on Sunday, August 4, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. "There is no stranger to El Paso," said Hill about the impact of the shooting on the community. (AP Photo / John Locher)
Children from a youth sports community participate in a vigil for victims of Saturday's shooting in El Paso, Texas on Sunday, August 4, 2019. (AP Photo / Andres Leighton)
A man left flowers near the scene of a mass shoot in a commercial complex on Sunday, August 4, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
Someone left some signs in front of the Del Sol medical center after a massive shootout at Walmart Saturday in El Paso, Texas on Sunday, August 4, 2019. (Lola Gomez / Austin-Statesman via AP)
Carmen Roldan brings flowers to honor the memory of the victims of the shooting at Walmart Saturday morning in El Paso on Sunday, August 4, 2019. (Lola Gomez / Austin-Statesman via AP)
Jessica Luna hugs her son Julien Lucero, aged 6, while she was watching at Ponder Park in tribute to the victims of a massive shootout at Walmart on Saturday morning in El Paso on Sunday August 4, 2019. (Lola Gomez / Austin American-Statesman via AP)
Family members embrace in front of the MacArthur Elementary School Family Reunification Center in El Paso, Texas on Sunday, August 4, 2019. (Lola Gomez / Austin-Statesman via AP)
Amanda Beltran holds her flashlights on the phone while she wipes her tears during a vigil on Sunday, August 4, 2019 in Ponder Park in honor of the victims of the shooting that happened. Produced at Walmart on Saturday, August 3, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. (Lola Gomez / Austin American-American via AP)
People walk silently, holding sunflowers and singing in honor of the victims of a massive shootout that took place at Walmart on Saturday morning in El Paso on Sunday, August 4, 2019. (Lola Gomez / Austin American -Statesman via AP)
Murderer Manuel Oliver, whose son was killed in the Parkland Florida shooting in the center in red, is surrounded by his wife and daughter, left, in black, and Democratic presidential candidate Beto O & ## 39; Rourke, all in blue, at a ceremony unveiling the mural of Oliver in El Paso, Texas on Sunday, August 4, 2019. The mural, which advocates a human treatment of immigrants , became a memorial after the deaths of more than 20 people Saturday in an attack that officials are investigating as a hate crime. O & # 39; Rourke holds a sunflower as a token gesture in favor of Oliver's son, who allegedly wore sunflowers on the day of his death. (AP Photo / Cedar Attanasio)
The Democratic presidential candidate, Beto O. Rourke, walks alongside his wife Amy Hoover Sanders and representative Veronica Escobar on Sunday, August 4, 2019, during a silent march holding sunflowers in the morning. Honor of the victims of a shootout at Walmart on Saturday 3, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. (Lola Gomez / Austin American-American via AP)
The Houston Astros players bow their heads for a moment of silence in memory of the victims of the shooting in El Paso, Texas and in Dayton, Ohio, before a baseball game on Sunday 4 August 2019 in Houston. (AP Photo / Michael Wyke)
Andrew Malagon, three, is observing a makeshift memorial for victims of Saturday's shooting at the El Paso, Texas shopping center on Sunday, August 4, 2019. (AP Photo / Andres Leighton)
Walmart employees cry while they attend a vigil for victims of the Saturday shootings who were killed at the store located inside a commercial complex on Sunday, August 4, 2019. El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
A painting of the Virgin Mary, flags and flowers adorn a makeshift memorial intended for victims of Saturday's mass shooting in a shopping complex in El Paso, Texas on Sunday, August 4, 2019. (AP Photo / Andres Leighton)
Clockwise from the left, Gabriela Lopez and her husband Roberto Lopez comfort their children, Santi Lopez and Max Lopez, during the vigil of the victims of Saturday's shooting in a commercial complex, on Sunday, August 4, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
People raise their arms in the air during a vigil in favor of the victims of Saturday's shooting in a commercial complex on Sunday, August 4, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
Lupe Lopez holds a photo of a victim during the vigil of Saturday's shooting victims at a shopping complex on Sunday, August 4, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
People pray at a vigil for victims of the Saturday shootout at a shopping complex on Sunday, August 4, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
People attend a vigil for victims of Saturday's shooting at a shopping complex on Sunday, August 4, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo / John Locher)
Members of a youth sports community participate in a vigil for victims of the Saturday shootings in El Paso, Texas on Sunday, August 4, 2019. (AP Photo / Andres Leighton)
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On Monday, however, the EPPD appeared to question Grant's account, after viewing the surveillance footage taken on the day of the mass shootings.
"Mr. Grant's actions were captured on a video, but they do not reflect his account to the media [CNN], "Said Carrillo. This contradicts his statements, in fact … [H]e took no action against the shooter. "
Carrillo added that the video showed that Grant acted "so as to preserve himself, the best I can describe, and nothing else."
Time notes that the USSS and EPPD had not had prior contact regarding Grant and that his arrest was probably not related to the potentially false statements he had made on CNN. Even so, President Trump honored him, along with four other heroic heroes from El Pasoans and six police officers who reacted to the shooting in Dayton this week.
"Chris caught – listen to this – bottles of soda and everything in front of him and started throwing them at the gunman, distracting him from other buyers and forcing the shooters to turn to Chris and shoot Chris." Trump said at the ceremony. "Chris suffered two very serious gunshot wounds, but he is recovering well and we wish him the best, his family is here."
Because of Grant's short detention, his mother had him accept a certificate of commendation.
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