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Father of 9 shot 4 times but survives
He is paralyzed; Las Vegas man arrested, charged in incident
The 45-year-old father of nine sat bleeding on the floor with bullets in his shoulder, vertebrae and lungs, waiting for paramedics to arrive and while police chased the shooter. Five hours later, he was at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo, where doctors told him he'd be paralyzed.
But he's glad to be alive.
"I think it's a miracle that he lived," said Armstrong's sister-in-law Kristin Beckstead. "All the care staff, all the doctors, it's all brought them to tears. They couldn't believe that someone would do this to someone else, with no provocation. There was no good reason for this to happen."
Jasson D. Hines, 24, Las Vegas, the son of the man who was renting the cabin, is accused of shooting Armstrong. Hines was charged Wednesday with attempted murder with injury by Garfield County Attorney Barry Huntington.
Hines and his father went to rent one of Armstrong's six cabins at the Blue Springs Lodge Friday evening a few miles outside of Panguitch. Hines' father went into the office first and arranged the details. Jasson Hines walked in minutes later, saying he "wanted to kill someone" and started firing, said Armstrong's sister-in-law Robyn Wilson.
Beckstead said police told her the shooter's father picked up a piece of wood and tried to smack the gun out of his son's hands.
"(The father) was trying to stop his son, trying to take care of Tracy," Beckstead said. "I know their family has been destroyed by this. I feel so sorry for his family. It's ruined two family's lives."
Meanwhile, Armstrong's 16-year-old son had run out with a cordless phone to call 911. As paramedics rushed to the lodge, wife Lynn Armstrong heard the sirens go past her house and called to check on her son. She didn't know Tracy Armstrong was there, too.
"She got the message that Tracy had been shot and heard him saying he wasn't going to live, to call Life Flight and that he loved her," Beckstead said.
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