A man rushed inside his car and set it and himself alight at a gas station in the city of Austin, Texas. But the alleged suicide attempt was unsuccessful – he was saved by two police officers, though he received injuries.
The dashcam video that recorded the moment was published by Austin Police Department, which said that on Tuesday they “responded to a check welfare call … for a man threatening to light his vehicle on fire.”
When the officers arrived, they tried to talk with the man whom they identified as Andrew Guerrero, 57. In the footage, the man is heard saying: “I think I’m going to set the car on fire.”
Guerrero then jumped in his car and “lit the accelerant he had previously poured inside of his car with a lighter,” police said in a statement. “This caused the explosion that blew the officers and the suspect away from the car.”
He then tried to get back in the car but came back out.
“That car got hot quick,” Cpt. Andy Reardon with the Austin Fire Department told Texas-based KXAN-TV channel. “We’re talking thousands of degrees inside there, you saw the force it created right there. For him to get back in the car like that, to do that, he was very dedicated on killing himself.”
The man was taken to the Brook Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, with “non-life threatening injuries,” police said, adding that the two policemen received minor injuries.
“I’m very proud of the officers’ courageous life-saving efforts and relieved their injuries were minor,”Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said. “My thoughts and prayers go out to the person they saved.”
The man was later charged with First Degree Felony Arson (Vehicle), police added.
“For him to get back in the car like that, to do that, he was very dedicated on killing himself.”
All he had to do was point his finger (or cellphone, or even a paper clip) at the pigs if that were true.
““I’m very proud of the officers’ courageous life-saving efforts and relieved their injuries were minor,”Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said.”
He was already extinguished and they began tazing him. Hahaha
And that saved him HOW?!
Courageous and life-saving are probably two words that don’t apply to their actions.
what a dope , not even successful at setting himself on fire,maybe he was killing himself because he was such a failure in life.. hey idiot , pour the gas on your head than lite the match ,,, geeze do I have to teach you everything ?
Lol Totally fake. Dudes shirt is still white in the back. I mean …really? RT style prop.
And his hair should have been afire and burned to crispy crinkles. Green screen, anyone?
You know your right, the car door is open when it blows, but the flames come out the rightside and not the open door, and if you slow it down the can not see into the car, the flame looks to be 3000 F or hotter. No smoke out of any cracks and the water the cop falls into it but no ripples or splash. The backside windows are blacked out?
It is green screen.
Portrayed as a cop saving the life of this person on local media coverage and pulling him from a burning car. That is not what happened.