
Shares his experience ‘running toward danger’
Leaving a restaurant after dinner one December evening, the instincts instilled through years in the United States Army and working as a firefighter kicked into full gear for Casey Franchot.
Franchot, 43, of the east side of Gallup, and formerly of New York, said he was leaving Taco Bell, 914 E. Hwy 66, the evening of Dec. 8, when he heard shouting across the street.
Franchot said someone was yelling that her baby was shot.
“I just took off across the street,” he said. “It was an inherent response.”
That evening just after 6:30 pm, according to a police report, Gallup Police Department Officer Darius Johnson was...