{"id":445158,"date":"2025-12-13T21:54:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T21:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/445158\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T21:54:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T21:54:27","slug":"fort-worth-credit-union-shooter-who-fired-on-off-duty-deputy-gets-95-years-prison-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/445158\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Credit Union Shooter Who Fired On Off-Duty Deputy Gets 95 Years Prison Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Texas man who shot an off-duty deputy inside a credit union will spend nearly a century behind bars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Leland Williams was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/tarrant-county-leland-williams-sentence-deputy-brent-brown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:sentenced;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">sentenced<\/a> Friday to 95 years in prison for the 2023 attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Deputy Brent Brown was seriously injured when he was shot twice by the suspect, but he has since recovered and returned to active duty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Tarrant County jury deliberated for eight hours before reaching its decision. Williams had previously pleaded guilty to aggravated assault against a peace officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The shooting occurred in November 2023 at Fort Worth Community Credit Union on Brentwood Stair Road. Brown was working off-duty security when Williams opened fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Surveillance footage captured the entire incident. Williams appeared agitated, left the bank briefly, then returned and shot Brown twice in the lobby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Despite his injuries, Brown managed to return fire. Williams fled but was arrested after a brief standoff in a nearby neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Williams testified Wednesday that he was under the influence of Xanax and alcohol during the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn called the sentence a \u201clong-overdue measure of justice.\u201d He praised Brown\u2019s courage during the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cDeputy Brown\u2019s courage in the face of an unprovoked and cowardly attack reflects the very best of our profession,\u201d Waybourn said. Fox 4 KDFW reported. \u201cI am proud of him, grateful for the relentless work of our prosecutors, and firmly believe that this sentence ensures a dangerous individual will never again have the opportunity to harm the people of Tarrant County.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Texas man who shot an off-duty deputy inside a credit union will spend nearly a century behind&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":445159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,205033,7371,205035,7372,205034,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-445158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brent-brown","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fort-worth-community-credit-union","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-leland-williams","14":"tag-tarrant-county","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115714487917149191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}