Former CNN journalist kills man in shootout at NW Albuquerque motel

A former CNN reporter shot and killed a man who allegedly tried to rob him and his wife at a northwest Albuquerque motel room Tuesday night.

Chuck de Caro, who is married to former CNN Headline News anchor Lynne Russell, has worked as an investigative reporter for CNN and other news organizations. The couple was staying at the Motel 6 at 6015 Iliff NW while on their way to California.

According to Russell’s account, de Caro was struck three times in the firefight before shooting and killing the offender, who hasn’t been identified by police.

De Caro was taken to University of New Mexico Hospital and is expected to survive. He will be there about a week, Russell said.

The couple tried to talk to the suspect in an attempt to calm him down ... The couple, who both have concealed weapons permits, had two guns in the bedside table. Russell ... was able to flip one of them into her purse and handed the purse to de Caro.

The suspect got upset that de Caro wasn’t giving him [a] briefcase and opened fire.

De Caro fired six rounds, and when he was finished the suspect was still firing. ... De Caro was hit three times — in the abdomen, the leg and lower abdomen.

Russell said she had to dive behind a piece of furniture to avoid being hit. She said the suspect was a thin, black man wearing green and white.

She said he was agitated and seemed desperate. “I knew he wouldn’t mind shooting us,” Russell said.

You parallel my thoughts exactly.

I don't read the newspaper or watch any local TV news. So all of my news is generally from Free Republic and the links on the Drudge Report. Between the two online sources, I get any news I would ever care to get. And I get it faster than Fox News. I am appalled sometime that people like O'Reilly brag about not being on the internet but in the same moment, not know what's going on out in the world except what his producers feed to him.

I guess the world is not perfect and never has been. But I realize now that I am on the downhill slide of history and my life. I am not out of touch so much as I am not interested in the new stuff. I don't like it. I don't believe in it. Everything is "Black Lives Matter" or microaggressions or white privilege or gay pride or transgender bathrooms or climate change is killing the planet or serial, congenital lying politicians or political correctness everywhere, including the military where it should not have a place or assaults on the Christian religion or gun control or making a deal with Iran so they can have nuclear weapons and on and on and on. The world is upside down and a completely different place than when I was growing up and raised my family.

Now, I am kind of glad that I will more than likely be six feet under when the sh*t hits the fan big time. I don't want to live in a world who's future looks dim.

Any of you guys remember the old days, when Motel 6 was so named, because that was the price of a room at most of their locations.

Being a cheapskate, I reckon I’ve stayed at more Motel 6’s than any other motel.
Haven’t stayed at that one, but have stayed at the one on the east side a few times, and the one on Caesar Chavez ONCE, Only Once, That one was the worst I have ever stayed in on either coast or in between.

Well put, Hot Hunt.

I think we're not alone in a multitude of sane, thinking folks who are starting to turn to alternatives to escape the constant hammering on our brains from too many TV freaks, clowns, obnoxious, slick carny spielers with alien ideologies and just plain subversive anti-Americans....voluble, entrenched media moles who have discovered that a compliant media, especially a sensation-seeking, ratings-seeking TV media will hire them, PAY THEM EXORBITANTLY and eagerly provide them with a vast platfrom to propagandize and to destroy our culture and economic well-being.

Yes, Virginia....it WILL happen from within...and it's ALREADY happening, in spades.

Leni

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