Posted on 12/05/2014 3:31:03 PM PST by jazusamo
Holding the reins of two horses with one hand, Austin Police Sgt. Adam Johnson raised his service pistol and fired a bullseye into the target some 312 feet away.
Down went Larry McQuilliams, and so ended his rampage through the streets of the Texas capital, where he’d fired more than 100 rounds from his AK-47 and .22-caliber rifles at buildings. The shot, from Johnson’s Smith & Wesson M&P .40 pistol, hit McQuilliams square in the chest and made the 15-year-veteran the toast of gun enthusiasts around the country.
“At a minimum, it was extraordinary shot,” said Army Maj. John Plaster, a retired Special Forces operator, long-range shooting expert and author of “The Ultimate Sniper: An Advanced Training Manual for Military and Police Snipers.”
It was not immediately clear if Johnson’s center-mass shot killed McQuilliams, or if the longtime criminal died from a self-inflicted shot a moment later. Results from an autopsy are pending, but there’s no disputing the improbably accurate bullet fired by Johnson brought a safe end to the Nov. 28 incident.
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I have to ask “How did the cop know he was shooting the right person from a hundred yards away?”
I’m more impressed with his eyesight than with his marksmanship.
Jesse Jackson, he lay low.
is he a gun enthusiast... someone should rat him out to the Police Chief.... lol
Good one
I would only guess it was because the nut was shooting a rifle in downtown Austin, not hard to see that from 100 yards.
Nice Shootin’ Tex!
Buildings saved from disgruntled citizen.
Film at 11
“Holding the reins of two horses with one hand...”
McCloud!!
The good kind
LOL! Some gun grabber would be proud.
“Fortune favors the prepared mind.”
- Louis Pasteur
Nice one-handed shooting! [I wonder how much range time he got before that great shot - probably a lot, regularly.]
Maybe he had a description of the guy’s clothing and it was obviously him. But I have to admit I’d want to be 100 percent sure he was the perp before I pulled the trigger.
Did you catch this: “returned fire at 2:33 AM”. That is NIGHTTIME!!!
The stage had a maximum time of 2 minutes - to keep people embarrassing themselves too badly.
The perp was the guy shooting a rifle at the building
+ “from”
Yes, I wondered why the photo of him was at night and then read the time. Really amazing.
You can’t tell if a guy is shooting a rifle from 100 yards? Time for an eye exam.
It’s a good shot, but not astounding. I used to shoot my Ruger Mark III 22lr at the 100 yard range. I could hit a torso sized target about half the time, albeit with two hands and not holding a couple of horses.
what no mention of the race of the gunman?? in this day and age? I mean he is deceased afteral.....
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