Posted on 11/12/2009 8:39:34 AM PST by traumer
The official version of last week's Fort Hood massacre may have to be revised after it emerged that the shots which brought down the alleged gunman were fired not by a petite policewoman but by her male partner.
Sergeant Kimberly Munley was hailed a heroine around the world after officials credited her with bringing down Major Nidal Hasan after he opened fire in a processing centre at the sprawling military base on Texas.
But a witness to the shootings, in which 13 people were killed, has told The New York Times that Sergeant Munley was herself shot almost as soon as she arrived at the scene.
The witness, who asked not to be identified, said that Major Hasan then turned his back on the policewoman and started to reload his semi-automatic FN rampage pistol.
"It was at that moment that Senior Sgt Mark Todd, a veteran police officer, rounded another corner of the building, found Major Hasan fumbling with his weapon and shot him," the newspaper reported today.
At a press conference at Fort Hood yesterday, a military spokesman, Lieutenant-Colonel John Rossi - who last week paid tribute to Sergeant Munley's professionalism - refused to address the issue of which officer filed the crucial shots.
“These questions are specific to the investigation and I am not going to address that,” Colonel Rossi told reporters. The Pentagon said the answer would depended on the results of ballistics tests.
Both Sergeant Munley and Sergeant Todd appeared on NBC's Today programme this morning where they were questioned closely about the sequence of events - but neither could confirm exactly what happened.
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I think whether or not she hit him is immaterial. She fought back and was seriously wounded in the attempt.
She’s still a hero to me.
Is this new Muslim spin to discredit a woman for gunning down a mass murderer Muslim agent?
This detracts from her marksmanship but not from her courage.
I think the answer is.. who cares! They’re both heros!
It was showing up that was heroic. The competence factor and chance of who fired the effective shots is not relevant.
pingalingaling
PC crap exposed again....
Well said.
My guess is this whole story is BS. No matter - she engaged with deadly force and pinned the Muslim down.
Muslims must be going bonkers because a Christian woman took this animal down. F Islam.
They're both heroes, and it doesn't matter whose bullet went where.
By tonight’s drive-by news, the story will be all about her not shooting the terrorist, and nothing about the terrorist killing our troops on U.S. soil.
Munley & Todd both arrived within seconds of each other and both moved to the sound of gunfire.
Both deserve a thumbs up.
Don’t mess up a good story. This terrorist needs to be reminded every day for the remainder of his brief life that it was an infidel woman who took him down.
I think it matters in the sense that BOTH of these LEO’s showed up and put themselves in harms way. The fact that one is a woman and the other is a minority is simply an example that our country is still pretty much stuck in the PC Liberal crap mindset. What matters is that they stuck their necks out for us.
Thanks to both of them.
As she should be, but the other officer, it would appear, knocked down the terrorist and should be given credit for it.
When they dig the slugs out they can probably tell which gun wounded this Jiahdist. This current account of Mark Todd being the hero is the more likely one IMHO
They both deserve medals - but the MEDIA should be objective...
Sergeant Munley insisted that she had fired at the gunman, but could not say whether she had hit him. Sergeant Todd described firing the shots which brought down Major Hasan - the first he had ever fired at a live target in a 25-year career - but could not say whether the gunman had already been hit.
Despite the disparity, there appeared to be no tension between the two partners as to who should be given the credit for stopping the shooting spree: they were happy to share the praise.
In its story, The New York Times compared the official version of events with that of Private Jessica Lynch, who was captured during the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Pentagon press releases spoke of how she had fought back against her capture; in fact she had been knocked unconscious when her vehicle crashed in an ambush.
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