Hero plumber Stephen Willeford
Posted on 11/06/2017 4:03:31 AM PST by ETL
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Stephen Willeford, 55, grabbed his own rifle and rushed to confront Devin Kelley after being told an attack was underway by his daughter.
As he arrived outside the church he came face-to-face with Kelley.
Mr Willeford, a plumber with no military experience, shot him in the side through a gap in his body armour, forcing the killer to flee.
Mr Willeford and another passing resident, Johnnie Langedorff, then chased him at almost 100 miles per hour in a car as the wounded killer tried to make a getaway after taking a hostage.
Kelley is said to have killed 26 people – including a child aged five – when he stormed into the church on Sunday dressed in black tactical gear and armed with an assault rifle.
Freeman Martin, regional director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said: “The suspect dropped his rifle, which was a Ruger AR assault-type rifle, and fled from the church. The man then chased the gunman.”
Mr Langedorff said: “He got a little bit of a jump on us. So we were doing about 95 miles per hour, going around traffic and everything.
“He just lost control and that’s whenever I put the vehicle in park. The other gentleman jumped out and had his rifle drawn on him and he didn’t move after that.”
Kelley was found a short distance away in his crashed vehicle, dead from a bullet wound. He had several more guns in his car, but the hostage was unhurt.
Police are still trying to establish whether Kelley died from Mr Willeford’s shot, or if he committed suicide.
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Speaking at a news conference in Japan, Mr Trump said: “Fortunately somebody else had a gun that was shooting in the opposite direction, otherwise it would have been – as bad as it was – it would have been much worse.”
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He [mass murderer Devin Kelley] served in logistics readiness at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, and was jailed for one year in 2012 on two counts alleging assault on his wife Danielle Shields and their child.
In 2014, he was kicked out of the military.
Old school friends described Kelley, who lived in nearby New Braunfels, Texas, as a “creep” who made no secret of his anti-religious views.
Nina Rose Nava, who went to school with Kelley, said: “He was always talking about how people who believe in God were stupid and trying to preach his atheism.’
On Kelley’s Facebook page, he appeared to have a fascination with guns. He had recently shared a photo of an AR-15 style gun with the caption: ‘She’s a bad b***h.”
Kelley’s mother-in-law, Michelle Shields, is understood to be a parishioner at the First Baptist Church and was friends on social media with First Baptist Pastor Frank Pomeroy and his wife.
Sure you can, if you have your story straight before the cops get there! ;)
"He was coming right for us officer! Pointed that thing right at me!...was in fear for my life! That's all I have to say until my attorney arrives!".
Hero plumber Stephen Willeford
Shot him in the side through a gap in his body armour,Willeford says the Rook got ya babe.
You’re trying to prove your point by tailoring circumstances to narrowly fit your argument.
Nobody said if he’s sitting in a restaurant 50 years after the fact you could walk up and pop him. He literally just stopped shooting people and started walking away. He still may have been armed. He still posed a credible threat. That’s why it is legal to pursue and use lethal force.
Absent his total compliance, there’s easily a justifiable reason to shoot him as he’s fleeing.
So once Plumber jumps in the car was Plumber trying to murder him, apprehend him, or just follow him so that cops would know where he was going? Kidnap victim, if there is one, changes the scenario.
If it was that SOB is fleeing ..I am going to murder that SOB for what he just did...there is a problem.
The best scenario for Plumber is shootout at church and Psycho killer dies from that gun fight at Church or self inflicted
If Plumber executed him after Crash he could be looking at a Civil case. Yes, it sounds crazy but it could happen. Might be hard to win but it could happen.
Once he is fleeing at 100 miles an hour to get away from Plumber and any cops coming..Psycho Killer might have been using self defense because Plumber could then be seen as the aggressor and he is not law enforcement
that is why I said earlier that you definitely want to say he was reaching for a gun.
That is why cops have been known to drop guns on perp dead body scenes
CHOICE will kill about 3,300 today.
I have seen more than one post on this that has said there are NO LIMITATIONS on killing a killer in Texas and I am just showing one such example.
Sounds mighty Irish Catholic to me.
Did he ever have a problem with Baptists before?
btw, I didn’t say 50 years after the fact. I said just killed 50 people.
You find him sitting in Mcdonalds table eating a burger 15 minutes later a citizen can’t execute him just because he just killed 50 people.
“Doesn’t meet the “he was Antifa, atheist, ISIS, CIA, FBI, Deep State patsy” agenda pushing. Only Alex Jones approved theories allowed here.”
BS. The guy was an avowed atheist and an evil one at that.
We have plenty of those in MY church here in Indy!
HMMMmmm...
Thanks for looking it up.
I assumed a typed but could not figure out it was supposed to be.
Their weapons were mere SECONDS away; but that was still just a bit TOO far!
I have to wonder what he did to his wife and kid that he got a year in jail and a DD.
This armed citizens blog made an interesting point about Texas Supreme Court versus statute.
I have no idea if true
http://ccwvslaw.org/item/900
“For example, a Texas statute allows you to shoot a non-threatening sneak thief stealing something from your property after dark. But Texas judges have consistently refused to instruct juries about this statute, resulting in criminal convictions for doing just that. And judges’ refusals have been consistently upheld by the Texas Supreme Court”
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