Dallas Man Charged With Firing at ATF Agent

A Dallas man who allegedly shot at an ATF agent in an obvious match of street rage has been federally charged, introduced U.S. Lawyer for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton.

Michael Fagan, 30, was charged on April 19 with assaulting or impeding a federal officer. He made his preliminary look earlier than U.S. Justice of the Peace Choose Renée Toliver on Friday.

“Mr. Fagan’s conduct two weeks in the past was allegedly violent and hostile; two adjectives that don’t go nicely with firearm possession. Whereas performing on this method, he encountered a extremely educated and devoted ATF Particular Agent. Fortunately for the residents of Dallas, that ATF Particular Agent was capable of put a cease to Mr. Fagan’s alleged acts of violence,” acknowledged ATF Dallas Area Division Particular Agent in Cost Jeffrey C. Boshek II. “I want to thank our companions on the Dallas Police Division, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and america Lawyer’s Workplace for aggressively investigating this vicious act upon certainly one of my brokers and buddy.”

Based on the criticism, round 8 p.m. on April 6, an ATF agent stopped at a purple gentle close to the doorway to the Dallas Arboretum seen an SUV use the far-right flip lane to bypass all the opposite stopped automobiles and proceed via the intersection, operating the purple gentle.

A couple of blocks later, the agent noticed the SUV’s driver, later recognized as Mr. Fagan,  contained in the car yelling and flailing his arms. Considering the driving force is perhaps experiencing an emergency, the agent rolled down his entrance passenger window and requested if the driving force was okay.

Mr. Fagan allegedly opened his driver-side door and commenced yelling incoherently on the agent, who instructed Mr. Fagan to get again in his car. Mr. Fagan re-entered his car, leaned over the passenger seat, and rotated to face the agent allegedly holding a black semiautomatic pistol in his hand.

The agent yelled “no,” or “don’t,” ducked down under the dashboard, and heard a gun discharge twice. The agent drew his weapon and fired three photographs.  Mr. Fagan fell again into the SUV.

He fled the scene to satisfy up together with his girlfriend, who referred to as 911 to report Mr. Fagan had been shot and took him to Baylor hospital.

In legislation enforcement interviews, Mr. Fagan acknowledged he had been ingesting at an area membership previous to the capturing. He claimed the driving force of a mid-sized Chevrolet that had been tailgating him fired at him, and denied firing a couple of spherical within the air in response.

No automobiles resembling the Chevy Mr. Fagan described have been situated in surveillance footage from the realm and day in query. On the scene, legislation enforcement recovered 5 casings: three per the responsibility ammunition carried by the ATF agent, and two per one other firearm.

A felony criticism is merely an allegation of felony conduct, not proof. Mr. Fagan is presumed harmless till confirmed responsible in a court docket of legislation.

If convicted, he faces as much as 20 years in federal jail.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives’ Dallas Area Division, the Dallas Police Division, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dallas Area Workplace carried out the investigation. Assistant U.S. Lawyer Robert Withers is prosecuting the case.