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Posted on 07/01/2015 7:50:32 PM PDT by rikkir
A road trip down old Route 66 led to a Wild West-style motel shootout for a pioneering CNN anchor and her former-soldier hubby.
Lynne Russell — the first woman to ever solo-anchor a primetime network news show — and Chuck de Caro, 65, had stopped at a Motel 6 for the night in Albuquerque when an intruder slipped into their room as Russell went to grab something from the car around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.
“I opened the door and he materialized out of nowhere; he was inside,” she told The Post. “And he pushed me into the room and onto the bed and closed the door.”
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She was a volunteer Sherriff’s deputy in Atlanta so she should know how to handle a pistol.
And she is still hot.
When you're driving cross-country and you have a vehicle filled with stuff you need, it's a lot easier to get a motel room where you can back your car into a spot in front of your door. I've done this many times. Always keep my .45 close by as well.
You got that right!
And to the snarks on a previous thread who kept beating the “more time at the range” drum, let’s make sure next time they’re at the range they strip naked, have someone hose them down with their gun across the room and an armed perp shooting at them and threatening their wife. The perp’s dead, dumbasses...
He’s a hero and Lynne is still hot as hell. Now if we’d only known she’d find bald guys attractive...
Any news on who the perp was?
Don’t ask- won’t tell!
I stayed one Sunday night at a Motel 6 in Albuquerque in 1994; it looked unsafe too back then. I don’t know if this was the same hotel, but it was fairly close to Sandia Peak.
Masculine values, the man protecting the woman.
I stayed at a family-owned Motel in Grants, NM, on a Sunday night in 1976: it was very unsafe, or seemed particularly loud. We left at 4 a.m. and headed to the Petrified National Forest.
Plastic surgery gone horribly wrong. And I used to dream about her.
Black and thin is all the Albuquerque Journal is saying. Police have not released his identity.
While your guess could very well be correct, I love the idea of some "smart" reporter asking what caliber it was and a wise guy officer responding "well...I guess a .35 caliber"
First, apologies, I didn’t search as I thought this was new.
Second. Next time at the range, strip naked put your wife in the line of fire, and have your weapon initially out of reach, all while being shot at.
I swear you couldn’t make some people happy if ya’ hung em’ with a new rope!
"...De Caro said he called upon his special forces training in the moment, and insisted there was “no way” he would’ve let the gunman harm his wife. “I was determined to save my dream girl’s life — even if it cost my own,” he told The Post, adding that his injuries “hurt like hell.”Cops say the shooting was justified.
“The police had to stay with him, keep me from going over to that man’s body and kicking the s–t out of him,” Russell said....."
WOW!
There are lots of places to stay in and around Albuquerque.
It strikes me as a little odd that two people who work(ed) for CNN would choose to stay at a Motel 6 rather then a higher end place. Not suggesting anything nefarious, but just strikes as odd.
I think the Motel 6 is on Central - only a few miles from the tram. Not really a bad part of town, but not an area I would stay in. By the airport, or along 40 or 25 are lots of business hotels.
The answer to everyone’s early question is, DeCaro had a pocket 9mm with which he returned fire at the perp.
Me too. I loved HLN. Any time of day you could flip to it, catch the headlines, and go on about your day.
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