Nguyen spotted them and turned and fired a single shot from a handgun, then fled on a motorcycle, Brown said. They arrived and found him in the parking lot. After searching for leads all day Tuesday, the crew received a tip that Nguyen was at his new apartment in east Colorado Springs, Brown said. 9 in Colorado Springs on a domestic violence charge and skipping out on the $12,000 bond Brown had paid on his behalf. Nguyen, 35, is accused of missing a court date Feb.
The pair and their entourage were looking for Hoang Nguyen, one of Brown’s clients, as part of A&E’s “Dog the Bounty Hunter” reality TV show. “You prepare for the worst, but when it happens, there’s just no preparation,” said Brown, a longtime Chapman friend and owner of Bobby Brown Bail Bonds. Chapman and Bobby Brown of Colorado Springs told police they were uninjured and caught their man hours later. (AP) - A bail bondsman says cameras were rolling during his pursuit with bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman of a bail jumper who they say fired a gun at them in Colorado Springs. I can no longer watch someone diminish her light with his hatred.COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. I was left with the racist and homophobic parents.”īonnie added, “My mother was a shining light in the void.
“He would cheat on my mom all the time, and I hated him every time he did it, but I forgave him for that because I wanted a relationship with my dad,” she claimed, adding, “I thought I had only one parent left. In a lengthy Facebook post last week, Bonnie, 22, claimed she wasn’t invited to Chapman and his fiancée Francie Frane’s wedding because she associated with Black Lives Matter and further alleged that her father had cheated on his late wife, Beth Chapman. I don’t understand why anybody would ever say that.”Ĭhapman went so far as to say that he’d “lay down” his life for “a gay man or a black man.” “I have three men on my staff that are gay,” he said. “My daughter is gay, baby Lyssa. He also dismissed his daughter’s accusations that he’s homophobic, alleging that Bonnie’s “been fed what to say.”
“My pass expired for using it, but no one told me that.”Ĭhapman even claimed that saying a “racist name” doesn’t “make you a racist.” The former A&E reality star is speaking out against claims that he’s racist and homophobic. “So that was a word that we used back and forth, as maybe a compliment. “I had just gotten out of prison in 1979 after spending time, 18 months in Texas, and it was probably three-fourths from the black tribe,” he explained.
When asked who gave him the so-called “pass,” Chapman responded, “The brothers” and clarified they were his “black tribe” behind bars. “I thought I had a pass in the black tribe to use it, kind of like Eminem,” he told the outlet. But because of over 15 years ago, I have an Achilles’ heel because I used the wrong word.”Ĭhapman’s A&E show “Dog the Bounty Hunter” was put on hiatus in 2007 due to a leaked phone call featuring him using the N-word more than six times when referring to his son Tucker’s black girlfriend. “I have never been a racist,” he insisted to “Entertainment Tonight” in an interview published Wednesday. The 68-year-old reality star, born Duane Chapman, dismissed his daughter Bonnie’s recent claims that he’s racist and homophobic while reflecting on the time he spent behind bars in the 1970s for first-degree murder.
Dog the Bounty Hunter files for marriage license amid family dramaĭog the Bounty Hunter is excusing his use of the N-word because he claims he was given a “pass” by his prison “brothers.”