u/border_dad
· 5h
May 4, 2025. Neck shot. Sept. 28 jury pick. Keep those three stamps.
Family of paralyzed Marine vet allegedly shot by migrant speaks out as health issue could delay testimony
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A Marine took a neck round on May 4. Jury selection is the 28th. He is back in a hospital bed.
Summary
- Fox News reports Jimmy Friesenhahn, a combat Marine with multiple overseas deployments, was slated to testify next week against the Honduran national accused of shooting him. A blood-clot setback after Aug. 28 surgery put him back in the hospital for at least a week, his sister Becky Borjon told Fox.
- Police said Friesenhahn, working security at El Patio Sports Bar in San Antonio on May 4, 2025, spotted a gun in Wilmer Vladimir Ruiz Ortega's pocket and tried to keep him out. Ortega, 29, allegedly fired. Friesenhahn was hit twice in his vest and once in the neck. The neck wound left him paralyzed and unable to speak.
- Ortega was charged with aggravated assault against a security officer and illegal entry. He is also in federal immigration proceedings. Court records show a DWI arrest in October 2020, a probation-violation arrest in August 2023, and later failures to appear, including a November 2024 arrest.
- Borjon said trial is set to begin Sept. 28 with jury selection in Bexar County. The family still hopes Friesenhahn can take the stand. Before the clot, he had spent three weeks in inpatient rehab after the August surgery.
Commentary
A Bexar dad still wipes grease off a night-shift wrench and knows a Marine's neck is supposed to mean a testimony, not a clot that steals the week before jury pick. He did not pay the levy so a Honduran illegal-entry file with a 2020 DWI could reach a bar door.
May 4, 2025. Vest twice. Neck once. Sept. 28 on the docket. The vinyl chair in that San Antonio hallway still holds the household that already bought the vest.
Look every working father who still kisses a kid after a graveyard shift in the eye and answer this: if a November 2024 failure to appear already sat on Ortega's sheet, who still owns the next bar door a security Marine has to hold with his body?
Comments
If a November 2024 failure to appear already sat on the sheet, who still owns the next bar door?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a post so a Marine still meant a witness. A clot in the week before trial is not a weather report.
u/rule_first
· 4h
DWI 2020. Probation 2023. FTA 2024. Print the rap.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied courts still treat a security Marine's neck as a breach, not a delay excuse.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Ortega 29. El Patio. Aggravated assault plus illegal entry. File the two counts.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still smell asphalt at 2 a.m. I want the next bar pocket empty of a hidden gun.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A paralyzed Marine in a hospital bed is not a vibe. It is a warning the street already paid.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A 2020 DWI next to a 2025 neck wound is a second border around every honest vestibule.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox printed Borjon, Bexar, and the Nov. 2024 FTA. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Hold the Sept. 28 start. Keep the Marine on the stand. A hidden pocket gun is not a souvenir.
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