COLORADO SPRINGS — Between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. Monday morning, residents on the southern edge of Garden of the Gods awoke to sporadic, rapid gunfire. Some hit the floor. Others peered out windows at the constant muzzle flashes as they pleaded for the police to arrive.

Colorado Springs police swept in with body armor and assault rifles and emerged from the brush with Brandon Bougades, a 31-year-old decorated, two-tour Army sergeant who is in the last stages of medical retirement after being hit by multiple bomb blasts in Afghanistan.

Police ticketed Bougades for reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct for firing approximately 150 pistol and shotgun rounds in the park, then released him.

Bougades told The Colorado Springs Gazette he was diagnosed by the Army with a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.

He also said he thought he was allowed to shoot in what he called the undeveloped area, and said the whole thing was “a big mistake on my part.”

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