( CNN ) -- A man who was shot but survived last Saturday 's massacre in Tucson , Arizona , was taken to a county mental services unit Saturday after making a threatening comment at a town hall event , Pima County Sheriff 's Department spokesman Jason Ogan said . James Eric Fuller , 63 , was involuntarily committed after he made threats against a Tea Party member at the Tucson event sponsored by ABC News , Ogan said . Fuller photographed Trent Humphries and said `` You are dead '' when Humphries began speaking at the event , according to Ogan . Humphries told CNN that Fuller 's comment came when the town hall discussion turned toward the issue of gun control . ABC News reported that the shooting victim became agitated and mumbled something that prompted him to be detained by police . Footage showed most of the audience filtering out , seemingly unaware , during the confrontation . Humphries has not pressed charges against Fuller and said Saturday that he does n't want to do anything to heighten tensions after the shooting . `` I am more worried about our community , '' he said . `` This does n't need to be about Trent Humphries . This does n't need to be about politics . '' The Pima County Sheriff 's Department said Fuller was taken into custody after 12 p.m. ( 2 p.m . ET ) and was in a county facility . He could not be reached for comment . The town hall event was held at St. Odilia Church in the southern Arizona city and was taped for Christiane Amanpour 's `` This Week '' program on ABC . Earlier this week , Humphries told CNN that he believed `` all the politics , all the things that are going on right now are almost exclusively from the left '' -- suggesting that he felt the Tea Party and fellow conservatives were being criticized . `` It 's sick that people are making this into a political issue , when it 's a tragedy for our community , '' he said . `` There 's people ... who were kind of hoping this would have been the Tea Party ( member ) . They want to cudgel to go after the Tea Party . '' CNN 's Chuck Johnston and Kevin Bohn contributed to this report .
The target of the threat says that it came amid a discussion on gun control . James Eric Fuller is in a county medical services unit , a sheriff 's department spokesman says . Fuller made threats at a town hall event being taped for a TV program , the department says . Fuller was shot at last weekend 's massacre in Tucson .