Posted on 03/29/2023 11:00:13 AM PDT by Morgana
The hero cops who stopped a transgender school shooter in Nashville are a Marine Corps veteran and an award-winning officer.
Michael Collazo, 31, and Rex Engelbert, 27, of the Nashville Metro Police, have been hailed heroes after taking down Audrey Hale, 28, on Monday after she had shot and killed six at The Covenant School.
Hale opened fire inside the small, church-run private elementary school on the outskirts of the city shortly before 10.13am. Dramatic bodycam footage showed Englebert and Collazo shooting her dead by 10.27am.
Collazo is a Marine Corps veteran who responded to the Christmas 2020 bombing, which also took place in Nashville, where Anthony Quinn Warner detonated a bomb downtown, killing himself and injuring eight others.
Collazo, a nine-year veteran of the force, is also a former firefighter and has previously served as a SWAT team paramedic. He has a young daughter, according to Fox News.
The Nashville native had joined the Marine Corps directly out of high school and is said to have relied on his military training throughout the active shooter situation, his older sister Deanna Collazo DeHart told Fox News.
'He really does love his job. When I sit and think about all the training and all the different classes that he does, and all the family events that he's had to miss because of training or leaving to go through this training or this class… it all really does pay off,' she said.
'[He's] obviously very brave, braver than I've ever imagined,' she said. 'To see the bravery of all of them just storming and clearing the rooms is absolutely phenomenal.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
That is what I thought. The younger looking one has been an officer for awhile.
I heard it is waaay different on the east side around Denver where they are hated by all.
I figured when I watched the video of the takedown that the lead officer had some combat exp. He was extremely brave and very very good at his job.
Bravo! You guys are American heroes.
“ The coup de grace shots at the end of the engagement are appreciated here. No need for a circus trial now.”
Well they told HER to stop moving.
SHE should have listened.
My son shared a 2 minute, speeded up, video of the 2 policemen moving in and killing the perp.
I saw 10 seconds and said right away, “military training”!.
The former Marine was leading them the whole way, at one time saying, “rifle leads. You don’t lead with a pistol”.
He also cover their six while his partner went up a set of stairs.
Classic military techniques.
Great accolades for the police, the Democrats must be eating their young over it.
There is another Daily Mail article linked from this one that has given me a little ray of hope for the moment. It’s an article about the shooter not being accepted as gay and trans by her parents. I have not read all the comments, but the significant majority of the comments I was able to scroll through were putting the blame squarely on the shooter for making the conscious discussion on her own to kill innocents and for the left to quit making excuses for people like that.
I guess as we get older someone in their 30’s look like teenagers!!!
Another story from the glorious history of the USMC. People joke about it, but when it comes to fighting....
I agree. Isn’t there a software that unscrambles that?
Someone needs to contact 4chan.
To All:
Please stop calling a male. “she, her” and other feminine references.
Or calling a female, “he or his.” and other masculine references.
“They,: (Trans) are not females and we just keep playing into their hands.
“They,” are mentally fouled up and should be in institutions.
Stop encouraging them.
Yes, I am there, being almost 64.
The killer was born XX with a split up the middle.....and tried to pretend she was a man.
Did I reference the “Nashville Shooter?”
It was a statement in general terms.
“Trans” to me means “fake.” Am I wrong?
You must have assumed that I did because the article was about that shooting in Nashville.
Thanks anyway,
Bat
Nashville is lucky to have such 2 proficient cops
You do realize this monster is a biological female. Aka pink blanket baby.
We need a Like button.
This is why SCHOOLS should hire Marines!
I’m proud to have one in my family!
Semper Fi, y’all!
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