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TEXAS RANGERS: ARMED CITIZEN ‘ENGAGED’ KILLER, ENDING RAMPAGE
grabien.com ^ | 11/5/17

Posted on 11/05/2017 7:05:40 PM PST by Kartographer

Today's mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, was only halted after an armed Texan "engaged" the killer and put an end to the rampage, the Texas Rangers reported. Freeman Martin, a major in the Texas Rangers and a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, says the suspect dropped his rifle and fled after being confronted by a local man who had grabbed his rifle. Freeman provided a timeline of the tragedy in a press briefing Sunday evening. "At approximately 11:20 this morning a suspect was seen at a Valero gas station in Sutherland Springs, Texas," Martin said. "He was dressed in all black. That suspect crossed the street to the church, exited his vehicle and began firing at the church." "That suspect then moved to the right side of the church and then continued to fire," he continued. "That suspect entered the church and continued to fire. As he exited the church, a local resident grabbed his rifle and engaged that suspect. The suspect dropped his rifle, which was a Ruger AR assault-type rifle and fled from the church." "Our local citizen pursued the suspect at that time," Freeman went on. "A short time later as law enforcement responded that suspect right at the Wilson/Guadalupe County line crashed out and was found deceased in his vehicle. At this time we don’t know if it was a self-inflicted gunshot wound or if he was shot by the local resident. We know he’s deceased in the vehicle. "

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: armedcitizen; banglist; devinpatrickkelley; dressedinblack; sutherlandsprings; texas; texaschurchshooting
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21 posted on 11/05/2017 7:32:02 PM PST by dadfly
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To: Kartographer

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. The shooter showed that he was truly a coward who dropped his gun and ran at the first sign of opposition.


22 posted on 11/05/2017 7:32:40 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: Bullish

In today’s world of journalism, reporters are told that the story MUST support the narrative.

It’s all about the narrative.

If any fact is told that interferes with the narrative, that fact remains silent—it is not said or written.

The narrative, of course, is guns are bad, and MUST be removed from the hands of the citizens. Only the state should have guns.

Facts about citizens using guns to defend themselves or save people challenge the narrative, which cannot be allowed.

Keep it mum is the modus of the journalist.


23 posted on 11/05/2017 7:34:20 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: Kartographer

Was this a no gun church?


24 posted on 11/05/2017 7:36:14 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: Alas Babylon!

Yeah, they are going to try to distort this one somehow.


25 posted on 11/05/2017 7:36:43 PM PST by Bogie
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To: Kartographer

REPEAL GUN CONTROL

BAN & REGISTER DEMOCRAT PARTY GUNS

The Target is the Motive. Religious Texans are hated by Democrats.

Democrats shot 45 peaceful Republicans.


26 posted on 11/05/2017 7:36:49 PM PST by TheNext (FBI FAKE STORY: Lone Shooter, But Died)
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To: Kartographer
TEXAS RANGERS: ARMED CITIZEN ‘ENGAGED’ KILLER, ENDING RAMPAGE

This fact guarantees that this entire event will go right into the memory hole, and will never be mentioned in the MSM after today.

27 posted on 11/05/2017 7:37:48 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Kartographer

The citizen took him out in their initial battle. He was hit and that’s why he drove the car off the road - he bled out.


28 posted on 11/05/2017 7:40:24 PM PST by circlecity
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To: Kartographer

A good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun. Good to know and important info.

Just wish it could have happened much sooner but the perp didn’t get away and he is not going to cost the state millions in court fees and prison. Not the best ending but much better than if he got away and disappeared.


29 posted on 11/05/2017 7:41:58 PM PST by Boomer (It'sOK2BWhite)
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Texas Church Shooter Was Antifa Member Who Vowed To Start Civil War
http://yournewswire.com/texas-church-shooter-antifa/

Texas church shooting: What we know about alleged gunman Devin Kelley
https://www.rt.com/usa/408865-texas-shooter-identity-name/


30 posted on 11/05/2017 7:42:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Terry Mross

Texas Rangers didn’t stop the SS from taking JFK’s body so that the local Medical Examiner could do the autopsy of JFK’s assassination.


31 posted on 11/05/2017 7:43:47 PM PST by Stanwood_Dave ("Testilying." Cop's lie, only while testifying, as taught in their respected Police Academy(s).)
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To: TheNext

Somehow we need to use social media and other tools to weed these people out before they go on their rampages and kill them dead before they kill others. They are clearly willing to die for their sick cause of leftism. We need to arrange that before they manage to inflict harm.

On days like this I wish we could get the CW2 started so the trash could be taken out.


32 posted on 11/05/2017 7:46:50 PM PST by Boomer (It'sOK2BWhite)
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To: RC one

Clearly when he exited the church, he wasn’t finished. Who knows what his next stop was going to be? Maybe even a final shootout with cops, killing a few of them.

The citizen did well.


33 posted on 11/05/2017 7:49:47 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ...)
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To: Kartographer

The wording of the report is ambiguous. Were there two rifles involved? Did the local man have his own rifle or did he grab the rifle the shooter was using?


34 posted on 11/05/2017 7:49:52 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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Anon claiming on twitter this guy had child porn and did time in military jail


35 posted on 11/05/2017 7:51:09 PM PST by RummyChick (I have no inside sources, media sources, or federal government employee sources. NONE)
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To: Kartographer

Met Texas Rangers, when I was a teenager. Very respectable and respectful! “Yes, Sir.” Also saw one of their pursuit cars a few years later while visiting Texas again (mid-’70s). It was passing me at the time. It looked like a Plymouth Fury (if I remember correctly) with the inside stripped and a roll cage. Two Rangers in it. Purred like a monster. It wasn’t stock at all.


36 posted on 11/05/2017 7:51:28 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: PROCON; DaveLoneRanger; carriage_hill

Armed citizen ping.


37 posted on 11/05/2017 7:51:39 PM PST by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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‪After he was court-martialed Kelley received a Bad Conduct Discharge and confinement for 12 months according to Air Force spokesperson.‬
38 posted on 11/05/2017 7:53:13 PM PST by KeyLargo
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To: RummyChick

Its felony possession of child porn

Makes no sense to me because that jared subway guy got years in jail


39 posted on 11/05/2017 7:53:58 PM PST by RummyChick (I have no inside sources, media sources, or federal government employee sources. NONE)
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40 posted on 11/05/2017 7:54:53 PM PST by PROCON (#MAGA)
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