Much more at the link including a 17-minute video of the AZ DPS chief giving details of the incident. His rendition is alternately chilling and uplifting detailing the events leading up to the shooting of the officer and the coincidental arrival of the Good Samaritan on scene. It is a compelling video well worth the time to listen.
¡Qué sorpresa!
Sounds like just the place I want to go on my next vacation!
El Sarco Grande!
I had a feeling we would find out he was an illegal alien.
McCain and crew want more of this, that’s why they have kept the borders open and the laws unenforced for so long trying to force us to give these people amnesty.
Leonard Penuelas-Escobar, 37, “is a known drug user but has no criminal history that we can find,” Col. Frank Milstead, the director of DPS, said during a news conference.
It took awhile for me to make it clear that this was the same incident where the attacker was killed by the Good Samaritan. Weird how they speak in the present tense in the headline and the article.
The Good Samaritan shot the bad guy and wounded him, but he wouldn’t give up the fight, so he gave him one last one to the head. Good shooting Citizen!
A bit more about the Good Samaritan - the DPS chief describes him as a humble and deeply spiritual man who is trying to come to understand that he took a life, even though it was proper to do so in this situation. He has neither police or military training or background, but goes to the range several times a year for proficiency.
I knew it was something like that.
It took what, three days just to name the criminal.
Ok, we have a lot more of the story. It will be interesting to see what they find in the car. Can of strange with his girlfriend severely hurt that he would shoot the officer.
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In the infamous 1970 Newhall CA shooting, in which 4 troopers were shot to death a passerby, Gary Knaus(?) took some shots at the scumbag criminals.
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Goes to show what a problem we have with crime in the US today. The guy's an illegal alien, and a drug user. That's a "criminal history" if I've ever seen one. It just happens that this criminal has no previous convictions. He obviously should have.
Who’d a thunk it - an illegal alien...?