Officer is grateful to be alive

Robert Roger was hit in the chest with a 9 mm hollow point bullet.

Officer Robert Roger compares getting shot through his bulletproof vest to getting hit with a baseball bat with a spike at the end.

A baseball-size bruise on his torso is still sore, but the San Angelo police officer knows the alternative would have been fatal.

It was four years to the day after his police academy graduation that Roger found himself face-to-face with a shooter holding a semi-automatic handgun, which he later learned held 9 mm hollow point bullets.

Roger said he had just started his shift for a traffic enforcement program on Monday when he began a chase that ended with gunfire. He had nearly left his bulletproof vest at home, thinking it would be a quiet day.

“I was trying to stop this guy for an expired registration and went to turn on my lights and he took off,” Roger said. “We went on a little tour of the south side of San Angelo.”

At the point when both speeding cars reached nearly 110 mph, Roger said he backed off slightly to avoid “getting too reckless.”

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