Posted on 08/24/2018 4:55:19 AM PDT by marktwain
A male attacker with a gun opened fire at a back to school event in Titusville, Florida on Saturday, August 4th, 2018, at about 5:20 p.m. About a dozen shots were fired.
An armed citizen drew his own handgun and returned fire. The attacker was severely wounded with a head shot. No one else was injured. 150 people were attending the event, including over 100 children. Video was captured at the event, showing people fleeing the attacker. Shots can be heard on the audio of the video. From titusville.com:
Reports of the shooting started coming in at 5:20 PM on Saturday, August 4th 2018, at Isaac Campbell Park, located at 701 South Street.
The initial shooter was airlifted to a local hospital with life threatening injuries. His gun was recovered from the scene.
It was kids in the path of those bullets, said Dwight Harvey, who was at the event. But thank God none of the kids got hurt. To have this happen at an event for the kids and peace in the city it's just crazy to me; it's just unbelievable.
Police, who are investigating the event, reports the armed defender was legally carrying his firearm. From wftv.com:
A bystander licensed to a carry a firearm then shot the shooter, who was flown to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said.
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Who was the attacker? A trained school shooter that the stupid judge in NM let loose?
Saturday, August 4th, 2018.
Almost 3 weeks ago. No news. The filthy MSM determines what news to publish.
Amazing...This is the first I’ve heard about this....
bump
Election year. Dems are touting the need for more gun control.
Relevance to this thread: What am I missing here??
Initial attacker: Misunderstood, aspiring rapper who just turned his life around.
Hero armed citizen: See, we must ban fully semiautomatic guns!
Yes, yes we did. I guess we're just to suppose to celebrate that as one of the wonderful a things that diverse culture adds to the American melting pot. /s
That explains it. Democrats stirring up trouble. Has to be democrats because the culprits do seem to take a large number of shots without hitting anything. Conservative spend much more time at the range. :-)
Of course I don’t know much about the shooter because the reports I’ve seen don’t talk about him much. That means the only things we can know about him is he likely wasn’t white or involved in the local Republican Party.
My search turned up one article that claimed to have the name but I’m not a subscriber.
One interesting claim reported on is that the hero confronted the shooter after he started to run but when the shooter drew on him that’s when he got shot. Not sure if that’s what happened but it was what was claimed.
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