Ruben Ray Jurado is still at large after he ‘shot soldier at party’

By
Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 5:01 AM on 27th December 2011


Ruben Ray Jurado is the suspect in a shooting that paralyzed Christopher Sullivan at his homecoming party

Arrested: Ruben Ray Jurado, 19, turned himself in for attempted murder

Police yesteday arrested a suspect in a shooting that critically wounded a soldier at his Southern California homecoming party after he survived a suicide bombing attack in Afghanistan.

Police said Ruben Ray Jurado turned himself in to authorities in Chino Hills, about 35 miles east of Los Angeles.

The 19-year-old had been sought in the attempted murder of 22-year-old Christopher Sullivan

Authorities allege Jurado shot Sullivan at the party Friday night after getting into an argument with the soldier’s brother over football teams.

Jurado, who had played football with Sullivan in high school, punched Sullivan’s brother and Sullivan intervened. Jurado then pulled a gun and fired multiple shots, hitting Sullivan in the neck, San Bernardino police Sgt. Gary Robertson said.

Sullivan’s relatives said the Purple Heart recipient was hit twice by gunfire, which shattered his spine and left him paralysed.

His mother, Suzanne Sullivan, told the Los Angeles Times that doctors believe her son will be paralysed from the neck down.

Seriously injured: Christopher Sullivan will either be quadriplegic or paraplegic after the shooting on Friday night

Seriously injured: Christopher Sullivan will either be quadriplegic or paraplegic after the shooting on Friday night

Devastated: Suzanne Sullivan holds a photo of her soldier son Christopher Sullivan who was shot on Friday night

Devastated: Suzanne Sullivan holds a photo of her injured soldier son

‘I don’t have any emotions. My emotions are none,’ she said. ‘He didn’t deserve it. He’s an excellent son and an excellent man.’

Jurado has been transferred to the
custody of the San Bernardino Police Department where he will be
booked, officials said Monday.

Paralysed: Christopher Sullivan was shot twice in the back

Paralysed: Christopher Sullivan was shot twice in the back

Police said Jurado had an attorney
but officials couldn’t immediately provide the lawyer’s name. It wasn’t
immediately possible to locate a number for Jurado.

Sullivan was wounded in a suicide
bombing attack last year in Kandahar province while serving with the
101st Infantry Division. He suffered a cracked and brain
damage in the attack and hcollarbone ad been recovering in Kentucky, where he is
stationed.

He was home on leave when the shooting occurred.

The Times reported that Sullivan joined the military in 2009.

Fabian Salazar, a soldier who
served with Sullivan in Afghanistan, said Sullivan rushed back to try to
rescue other soldiers after the bomb blast propelled him several feet,
leaving him dizzy and disoriented.

‘I know he would take a bullet for
his brother,’ Salazar told the newspaper. ‘And if you asked him again
after all this… if he would take a bullet for him again, he would say
yes. That’s the type of person he is.’

 

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wonder if Ruben Ray Jurado is in America legally?

To DM, you have the soldiers image is reversed (backwards). Look at the name tag…

My goodness – the terrible irony that he came back virtually unscathed from the deadly and war-torn Afghanistan and was shot in his own home town, in his own home, at his home coming party which should have had his closest friends and family. How low can people get? I hope someone hands this guy in and that Mr Sullivan makes a better recovery than the doctor think.

101st AIRBORNE Division. Not “101st Infantry Division.”
This is a very famous division. Please pay attention to detail (as well as letting my comments appear for a change).

Terrible news ! I hope they catch the coward and let him loose on the army firing range with his arms behind his back.

Yep! The good old US of A and it’s obsession with the right to bare arms. This is what you get! Daily murders and atrocities in the fruitcake country of planet earth. RIP this poor man.

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