Suicide is fairly common in spree killers. He walked into that church with the plan in mind to take out as many people as he could, and then off himself when he ran out of ammo or escape options. One of the two heavily-armored North Hollywood bank robbers killed himself, and I believe the Columbine shooters also had suicide as their endgame.
I think we all know the answer to these questions. With that in mind, even if he did commit suicide, she still saved a lot of lives.
Absolutely. She stopped him. It matters not a bit whether she fired the fatal shot or not.
What my dad taught me was to shoot to stop. To remove the threat. Whether the perp lives or dies is a secondary concern. Priority one is to stop him from shooting, not from breathing.
“Suicide is fairly common in spree killers. “
I have no doubt this whackjob would have eventually offed himself. I believe that this is what gives these whackjobs the “courage” (if we can call it that) to continue to fire even if someone were to fire at them. They are no longer afraid of dying.
However, with the amount of ammo they are reporting he had, he was planning on taking a lot more people down before he turned it on himself.