San Diego cop returns to work after bullet to brain, says family saved his life: Thats what made me fight

A San Diego cop returned to his patrol last week, more than two years after defying death and a bullet to the brain.Sgt.Anthony Elliott was only thinking of his wife and two young kids as blood gushed from his head while he was rushed to the hospital in December 2023 — and was so torn up with worry that he stopped his fellow officers from delivering what he knew would be devastating news to his family.“I knew they were going to come to my house and say I’d been shot in the head,” Elliott told the DailyMail in an interview published Saturday.“Before they can say ‘But he’s okay,’ she’ll already think I’m dead.

I couldn’t let her feel that.”Rather than rest up in the hospital’s trauma unit — with fresh staples across the crown of his head — Elliott eagerly waited for the Ring Camera outside his home to activate.When the app on his phone buzzed and he saw his three colleagues amble up to the door, the hurt cop stopped them in their tracks before they could knock.“You guys are good looking,” Elliott told them through the camera.“What’s up, dude!” one of the cops responded.“She’s going to freak out when she sees you, just be prepared,” he told them, explaining that he wanted to make sure his wife, Laura, could hear his voice and confidently understand that he had survived the shooting.Elliott had tried to call her before the men arrived, but her phone was off — the young mother was catching up on some much-needed sleep.When the officers asked how Elliott was feeling, he jokingly replied: “‘I’m feeling like I got shot in the head.”As they walked into the home, they let their colleague know they were inside with Laura, soothingly adding: “We’ll see you soon, alright?”Elliott, a decorated San Diego police officer, former Navy sailor and SWAT team member, had been shot while in pursuit of a domestic violence suspect through a row of shopping carts outside a grocery store in the suburb of Carmel Valley.The suspect...