A Denton County man was arrested after a Thursday morning shootout with sheriff’s officers at a mobile home park near Sanger. No one was shot in the gunbattle.
Ronnie Lee Nash, 31, was treated at a hospital for an apparently self-inflicted knife wound. He was taken to the Denton County Jail, where he was charged with attempted capital murder and two counts of assault.
A woman called authorities about 8 a.m. from the mobile park in the 900 block of Doc Holiday Road, sheriff’s spokesman Tom Reedy said. She said her son had assaulted her and was beating his girlfriend. She said he had a gun.
As two sheriff’s officers were talking to the suspect outside a trailer, he pulled out a .38-caliber pistol and fired at one of them, authorities said. He ducked into the trailer as the officer returned fire.
“He went in and out several times, shooting, until he ran out of ammunition,” Mr. Reedy said. “Then he threw the gun down and put up his hands.”
Mr. Nash was taken into custody without further incident. He suffered a gash on one arm that appeared to be a knife wound.
His 35-year-old girlfriend was treated at another hospital for severe facial injuries she suffered in the beating, Mr. Reedy said.