Iraq veteran nearly killed by gunshot in Denver

Iraq War veteran nearly killed in violent attack on Colfax Ave. in Denver
FOX 31 Denver
November 21, 2012
by Justin Joseph

DENVER — R and B Superstar Lauren Hill was the featured performer at the Fillmore last Friday night.

Jennifer Muenzenmayer and her friend Jonathan Hammond had just left when it happened. “Jonathan put me in the passenger side of the vehicle. He walked to driver`s side and that`s when he was attacked,” said Muenzenmayer.

The attack happened at E. Colfax Ave. and Pearl St., just one block from Denver’s largest police precinct.

Cell phone video captured the chaos as police came from every direction. Two men tried to rob Hammond, and when he refused, one of them shot him, piercing a major artery in his leg.

It was the third violent crime in Capitol Hill in just weeks.

“All I can do is pray and have faith in God,” said June Hammond, Jonathan’s mother.

“There`s nothing like getting a phone call at 3 o’clock in the morning and you have no idea what happened other than there was a shooting and your son’s in critical condition.”

But Jonathan Hammond is much more than just a victim of another crime.

He’s a veteran surviving 12 years in the Iraq war.

All of that, and it was a bullet last Friday night in Denver that nearly killed him.
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