Deputy Daniel Rush became a hero Friday.
At 47, Rush had spent his entire adult life mostly standing post at the courthouse or in the jail.
Car racing was about his only interest outside of the job, where he found his friends.
Everyone said he was nice, dedicated and quiet.
“He’s very friendly. A heck of a nice fella,” Forsyth County Superior Court Chief Judge Jeffrey Bagley said, adding that Rush was one of the first people he saw everyday at the courthouse.
On Friday morning, with a rented SUV driving up the walkway, headed for the front door of the Forsyth County Courthouse, Rush fired into the windshield of the car driven by Dennis Marx and Marx shot back, fracturing Rush’s tibia and fibula.
“That deputy made it possible (that) nobody else was hurt,” Forsyth County Sheriff Duane Piper said.
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