I just want to grab a hot coco, get into my pj's and crawl inside a 'safe space'
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.
I thought posts 3 and 4 were one, Similar facial shape. Sorry.
I dsay again..Tejas, the land of queers and steers ...
I bet Stephen gets his deer every year.
The Chase..
Imagine the next election for a DA whose office charged one or both of these citizens who chased this guy.
I would be interested in commentary from someone familiar with TX law.
Every pastor should have a Sergeant-at-Arms in the body of the Church. Maintains protocol.
He's sure to have a "hot time" where he is headed.
Militant atheists always seem to have this same unproven self assessment of superior intellect.
Thanks for that, Word of the Day: bruit " VERB, bruiting (present participle): spread (a report or rumor) widely:
'I didn't want to have our relationship bruited about the office.' "
I never saw it before, great word, should be more widely bruited. ;-)
There is NO limit in Texas on killing a killer. There is no jury in the state that would convict this civilian hero who used his gun to kill a killer.
Too bad several members of this church had their weapons in their cars. That is a mistake rural church members should not make in the future. That is why rural schools allow legal gun carriers on their staff to bring them onto school premises. The sheriff in some counties is half an hour away from those schools.
Since he worked as a security guard at a waterpark and still had weapons in his previously unregistered vehicle, he might have intended to carry on his rampage there after the church.
I am amazed at the news we get in UK papers while our own media is generally clueless.
Militant atheists always seem to have this same unproven self assessment of superior intellect.
Yet he believes without doubt that there is no God. Atheism is a faith-based belief as well. He wasn't even an agnostic.
I’ve read the killer was reloading when the plumber confronted him.
The reason you are so correct, is because leftist communist types and organizations believe religion “is the opiate of the masses”, as their god stated, and the “solution” can only ultimately be the end of Christians and religion!
We cannot have total allegiance and faith in a centralized all powerful man controlled state, at the same time a large percentage of citizens within the same jurisdiction believe in individual responsibility and individual freedom granted by God!
A nation of lions must be turned into sheep, or Marxist communists cannot take over.
Now imagine a guy like Bergdahl deserting his post in time of war getting people killed and maimed looking for him....and does NO jail time....
>>> 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.
No military experience, but I bet he hunts/has hunted before.
You need two at a minimum. One outside one inside. 4 is ideal with com so they can work as teams. You may have to be discrete about the true roles of these carriers.
“shot him in the side through a gap in his body armour, forcing the killer to flee.”
He was shot with a rifle. Unless he was wearing plates (which we have not been told he was), the citizen could have shot him anywhere. Kevlar and other soft body armor can’t stop rifle cartridges.
If you only own a pistol, buy a rifle and train with it.
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