Posted on 08/17/2022 1:52:12 PM PDT by shadowlands1960
A Florida college student was shot and killed on Sunday in Alabama trying to protect himself and his girlfriend after they were apparently held at gunpoint by a woman who claimed she was having trouble with her car, according to the Clay County (Alabama) Sheriff’s Office:
On Sunday, August 14, 2022, at approximately 11:30 am, 911 notified Clay County Sheriff’s Office and dispatched Clay County Rescue Squad and Shinbone Valley Volunteer Fire Department to National Forrest Service Road 600-3 near Cheaha Mountain for a 22-year-old male who had been shot. There were no other details on this call that were known at the time it was dispatched. Upon arrival at the scene, sheriff’s deputies, Lineville police and responding emergency personnel found the girlfriend of the shooting victim, 20-year-old Mikayla Paulus, performing CPR on her long-time boyfriend, Adam Simjee, who had been shot.
A black female, later identified as Yasmine Hider, was laying on the ground nearby. Hider had suffered several gunshots to her torso. Medical personnel were unable to revive Simjee who died at the scene. It was determined that Hider had attempted to rob Simjee and Paulus at gunpoint and was subsequently shot by Simjee who had a handgun concealed on his person. Hider was transported from the scene by ambulance to a nearby landing zone and airlifted to a Birmingham hospital where she underwent surgery for her injuries.
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Well 45 ACP is 11.5mm.
Just pointing that out...
I used to live in Clay County. I think some other FReepers as well.
Such a sad story.
In other news, Cheaha mountain is Alabama’s highest point. Just over 2400’ ASL.
If the young man had not acted they would most likely be digging up the park for weeks trying to find them.
“For this day age that is an incredibly well written and informative article.”
Indeed. That reporter will never work for the NY Slimes - because they failed to withhold politically correct but useful information. After all, some things just cannot be said lest we detect patterns which we are too stupid to detect without help from a liberal ‘journalist’.
No, he did NOT do the right thing. What he did got him killed, and put his girlfriend at extreme risk of being killed. He should have called 911 or called local authorities.
I admit that I might have made exactly the same mistake he did.
Better written than most news stories, but it doesn’t identify the college the deceased student attended.
I should try reading the article sometimes.
RIP.
As I’m fond of saying, I carry a .45 because I can’t carry a .46.
Sometimes, you drive on by. And maybe tell them you’ll send help. Bad people know how to play on that “you aren’t racist are you?” guilt.
Poor guy.
Happens just as often with a 45 as a 9. Shot placement is king.
I have known two women who were violently raped, one of whom was also tortured and killed, because they stopped to help an apparently stranded motorist. It is such a nasty, devish trick to use a person’s instinct to help against them.
This story has an added element in the “off grid camp” where the guilty parties lived. It strikes me as a sign of more to come as O’biden continues to build back better.
May the woman whose man laid down his life for her find the peace of Christ out of these circumstances.
With a five year old child?
Not something you read about every day, is it?
As officers were ordering the female to the ground a 5-year-old child ran from the woods holding a loaded shotgun. Law enforcement told the child to put the shotgun down however the child continued to the female’s location before laying the gun on the ground. The female was taken into custody and later identified as Krystal Pinkins.
“ The .45, because shooting twice is just silly.”
I’ve been thru many stress drills/trainings with “it has to start with 4” buddies.
I usually get more hits in shorter time with a 9.
Quantity has a quality all its own.
Every month in “American Rifleman”, the NRA publishes a page titled The Armed Citizen, featuring 8 to 10 digested articles from local papers, recounting lawful self-defense with firearms.
A long-time couple. Just brings tears to my eyes and heartbreak.
So sad it had a bad ending. It should have ended with the miserable perp being six feet under and the young man still alive.
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