{"id":302771,"date":"2014-06-02T10:39:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=302771"},"modified":"2014-06-03T11:03:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T16:03:42","slug":"authorities-man-shot-after-taking-father-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=302771","title":{"rendered":"Man Held on $250,000 Bond after Allegedly Taking Father Hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"brucemcmeansharrisonco\"<\/a>MARSHALL \u2014 Harrison County Sheriff’s Office officials announced the man accused of holding his father hostage at gunpoint over the weekend will be held on $250,000 bond. KETK reports Bruce McMeans, 50, has been charged with aggravated assault on a public servant and injury to an elderly person. His father was released from a Longview hospital into the care of a family member. <\/p>\n

Harrison County officials say a man was shot after taking his father hostage. According to law enforcement, 911 dispatchers received a call at around 8:00 Saturday night from McMeans, requesting an ambulance for his father to come to an address on Farm Road 31 in Elysian Fields. Officials say McMeans sounded angry to dispatchers and stated he did not want to see any deputies come to the residence, and that if any deputies came to the residence he would shoot and kill them. He further stated that deputies would kill him anyway when they saw what had been done to his father, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

Within a few minutes of this call, a call came from a neighbor stating he had heard two shots from the general direction of McMeans’s residence. EMS and deputies set up a command post at the Crossroads fire station a short time afterward, and Harrison County crisis negotiators initiated a telephone call to the suspect. According to officials, two very short telephone calls to the suspect revealed that recently he had moved in with his father, who is an Alzheimer\u2019s patient. Comments made by the suspect during the calls reportedly revealed that he intended to shoot deputies and end the problem with his father.<\/p>\n

According to authorities, McMeans hung up on negotiators, so deputies attempted to get a view of the house from a nearby location. But officials say the location of the house on the property and the surrounding woods made it difficult to see the residence clearly. According to information from the sheriff’s office, Sheriff McCool and Captain Marty Latham determined that since the suspect had a history of weapons offenses since 1984, and because of the gunshots heard, a request for assistance to Longview PD and a Texas DPS helicopter unit should be made. Authorities say negotiators tried several times to reach McMeans again on the phone but he refused to answer. <\/p>\n

Authorities approached the house by armored vehicle around 1:30 Sunday morning and found McMeans standing in a darkened, covered position in the home and holding a rifle, according to the sheriff’s office. Officials say he was ordered to drop the weapon but did not comply. According to authorities, he then turned the weapon toward the approaching officers and was shot in the lower left hip. Officials say he then dropped the rifle and was surrounded by police and taken into custody. His injury is not deemed life threatening, and he was taken to an area hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n

Authorities report that upon entry into the residence, the father was found naked and lying on the floor in a doorway. EMS checked the father and did not find any gunshot wounds. Officials say he was very disoriented. Another family member came to the residence to care for the father. Sheriff McCool was said to be very relieved that no law enforcement or EMS personnel were injured in this incident. He stated he is very appreciative of the agencies that assisted Harrison County and that this demonstrates the partnering of area agencies during a crisis situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MARSHALL \u2014 Harrison County Sheriff’s Office officials announced the man accused of holding his father hostage at gunpoint over the weekend will be held on $250,000 bond. KETK reports Bruce McMeans, 50, has been charged with aggravated assault on a public servant and injury to an elderly person. His father was released from a Longview … Continue reading Man Held on $250,000 Bond after Allegedly Taking Father Hostage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 11:08:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302771"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302851,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302771\/revisions\/302851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}