Man Rescued from Ditch in Standoff
Posted/updated on: August 28, 2011 at 8:32 am
LINWOOD — An East Texas man is trapped in a ditch in a hail of gunfire, and Nacogdoches County Sheriff’s deputies help Cherokee County Sheriff’s Deputies come to his aid. According to KETK and the Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel, they had to shut down Highway 21 and Cherokee County Road 2519 in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. Deputies say 52-year-old David Lynn Adams was in a standoff with authorities. They say he’d threatened to shoot anybody who came to the rescue of a man in a ditch near his home. After hours of negotiating, deputies rescued the man and arrested Adams.
