Retired Garland security officer reflects on ISIS-inspired terror attack 10 years later

Ten years ago this Saturday, two armed men pulled up to the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland with plans to unleash terror on more than 150 people gathered inside.

The ISIS-inspired terrorists were shot and killed in the parking lot, but not before wounding Garland ISD security officer Bruce Joiner, who is sharing his recollections of that day.

Joiner occasionally visits a tree in the parking lot where his life nearly ended.

“I used to go up there every year and kind of sit by the tree and the post where it was and just thank the Lord for protecting me,” Joiner said…

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