An off-duty agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was left permanently paralyzed after he was shot in the neck, his wife said in a pre-trial hearing Thursday.
The incident happened the night of Dec. 27, when agent Matthew Murray tried breaking up a fight outside a bowling alley in Riverview, Florida, according to WTVT-TV in Tampa.
Murray, along with his wife, children, and a few family friends, had just walked outside the building when they noticed two men and a woman fighting.
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Murray stepped in to break it up, identifying himself as law enforcement.
“It was automatically people trying to start a fight and my husband trying to deescalate it right from the start,” Courtney Murray, the agent’s wife, testified during
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