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Richmond rookie officer's training helped foil carjacking

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/ ... 30033.html

Feb. 2, 2006, 5:10AM

By ROBERT CROWE
Houston Chronicle

Holly Mong was just six months into her career as a police officer when she shot two armed men who tried to hijack her car outside her Jersey Village apartment.

Police said Mong, 22, a Richmond Police Department rookie, was wearing civilian clothes about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday when two suspects climbed into her Jeep Liberty and pointed guns at her head as she was starting the vehicle. "It was her training that helped her react in that situation," said detective Sgt. C.J. Harper of the Jersey Village Police Department.

On her off day, she was about to drive to Richmond to attend an in-service training class. "The suspects had no way of knowing she was an officer," said Jersey Village Police Chief Charles N. Wedemeyer.

When the men ordered her to move to the passenger seat, she grabbed her gun from her purse and fired several times, killing one man and striking another.

Police later found a third suspect hiding nearby in a getaway car.

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