By Bryn Stole
The Advocate
HOUSTON — A month after wounded East Baton Rouge Deputy Nick Tullier arrived at TIRR Memorial Hermann hospital in Houston, doctors talked about Tullier’s rehabilitation during a Thursday press conference.
The deputy, wounded in an ambush attack on law enforcement on July 17 that left three other officers dead, flew to Houston on a special medical flight in November following four months of intensive treatment at Our Lady of the Lake.
In four weeks at the Houston hospital, a highly regarded rehabilitation facility, specialists with the hospital’s Disorders of Consciousness program have made “significant discoveries” while working with the wounded deputy, a hospital spokesman said.
Tullier’s father, James Tullier, said his family chose TIRR Memorial Hermann in part based on consultations with the personal doctors for President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, who both spoke highly of the hospital.
Tullier was shot three times in the head, abdomen and shoulder during the Sunday morning attack on July 17 by 29-year-old Gavin Long, a Kansas City man who was killed during his rampage by a Baton Rouge city police SWAT officer.
Two police officer -- 32-year-old Montrell Jackson and 41-year-old Matthew Gerald -- and 45-year-old Sheriff’s Deputy Brad Garafola were killed in the shooting. In addition to Tullier, two other officers -- Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Bruce Simmons and a city policeman who wasn’t been publicly identified -- were also wounded in the shooting.
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