Updated Feb. 27: Revised to clarify that Tony Garces said he did not immediately follow police instructions to drop the gun.

After a gunman took 100 people hostage at a Texas church this month, police burst in and shot a man holding a gun.

But that man, Tony Garces, had taken the pistol away from the gunman after churchgoers were able to tackle him.

"I got the gun," he told KVII-TV. "I thought it was over. but they the cops shot me. The good guys shot me."

Amarillo police said they were called to Faith City Mission just before 9 a.m. Feb. 14 when a caller reported that congregants were being held at gunpoint.

Just before police arrived, several of the hostages managed to wrestle the gunman to the ground, and Garces snatched the weapon from his hand.

Responding officers then came into the building from two entrances and saw Garces.

Garces said he yelled out that he had the gun, but then didn't drop it immediately as police ordered him to.

At least one officer opened fire, and Garces was struck in the neck and torso.

"I wasn't going to throw [the gun] down because it could have fired. It had bullets in it, you know," Garces told KVII. "I didn't want anyone else getting hurt.

"Then pop, pop they shot me. … I went down, then a puddle of blood. I thought I was a goner."

Garces was taken to a hospital, and the man authorities say was the actual gunman, 35-year-old Joshua Len Jones, was arrested. No one else was injured.

Jones faces six counts of aggravated kidnapping and remains in custody at the Potter County jail, with bail set at $1.2 million.

A lawyer representing Garces, Jeff Blackburn, told KVII he was working with the city to make sure his client's sizable medical bills are taken care of.

Garces, who told the television station that he's turning his life around after a four-year prison term, doesn't consider himself a hero, noting that other congregants were just as brave.

"There were other people there," he said. "I just took the gun away from him. I got shot. I got the bad part. It's life."