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‘This Closes an Open Wound’

Family Members on Both Sides Console Each Other After Life Sentence Given to C.J. Lehmann Shooter

  • ‘This Closes an Open Wound’
    ‘This Closes an Open Wound’
  • ‘This Closes an Open Wound’
    ‘This Closes an Open Wound’
  • ‘This Closes an Open Wound’
    ‘This Closes an Open Wound’
An incredible thing happened in Bellville on Tuesday, Aug. 9. Fayette County Sheriff’s Deputy C.J. Lehmann, who was shot and blinded in the line of duty four years ago, hugged and cried with the family of a man who was just minutes before sentenced to life for pulling the trigger. An Austin County jury convicted Shazizz Mateen of aggravated assault of a public servant for shooting and blinding…

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