Trenton, New Jersey



From Long Island’s Newsday.com of September 24, 2004

Retired officer shoots pistol-pointing man



A retired city police officer shot and wounded a man who pointed a gun at him Friday morning during an argument in a bar, police said.



Earl Hill, 47, who was carrying his personal Glock 9mm semiautomatic pistol, said other bar patrons were involved in a verbal altercation when he arrived there around 10 a.m. Hill told authorities that Theodore Demetrius Meekins, 39, of Trenton, then took out a handgun and pointed it at him.



Hill told Meekins, who also is known as Theodore Wilson, to drop the gun, but he refused, police said. Hill then fired three shots at Meekins, who was hit once in the lower abdomen and once in the right leg.



Meekins then dropped his gun as he ran out of the bar, but later went to St. Francis Medical Center where he underwent surgery for his wounds.



Meekins, who is expected to fully recover, was charged with aggravated assault.