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Inside the Texas church, she thought it was her turn to die. Then outside, a man appeared.
The Washington Post ^ | 11/7/17 | Samantha Schmidt

Posted on 11/07/2017 5:33:43 PM PST by Moonman62

She told her son that the shooter paced back and forth, firing into the pews and shooting at cellphones anytime someone tried to call police. He shot at her phone at least three times. “With every shot, she was crying,” he said of the woman. “She was just staring at my mom while she tried to comfort her.” As he fired rounds into the woman, Farida Brown held her hand, telling her she was heading to heaven. At that moment, she heard a shot fired from a different man, at the front door. The other man was Stephen Willeford, who lives near the church.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: church; devinpatrickkelley; shooting; texas
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Willeford is a hero. He is the good guy with a gun who stopped the massacre.
1 posted on 11/07/2017 5:33:43 PM PST by Moonman62
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To: Moonman62

Bookmark


2 posted on 11/07/2017 5:36:28 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Moonman62

We used to have insane asylums where the mentally ill were confined and they tried to help them. Whatever happened to them? Why are the mentally ill wandering the streets?


3 posted on 11/07/2017 5:37:41 PM PST by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Moonman62

It is pretty obvious that the shooter planned on murdering everyone in the church.


4 posted on 11/07/2017 5:40:40 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: Moonman62; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; White Bear; ...

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5 posted on 11/07/2017 5:41:31 PM PST by bitt (press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally)
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To: McGavin999

Because in the 1960’s during JKF’s presidency, the community mental health system was born. The idea was that the people being held in the state hospitals had civil rights, that they were being held without having committed any crimes. The idea was that they should be moved back into the communities where they would be taken care of by mental health centers. A lot of government money was given to communities to train psychiatrists to treat the mentally ill where they lived. The effect was that a lot of mentally ill people ended up living on the streets not getting the care they needed.


6 posted on 11/07/2017 5:45:05 PM PST by BoomerBabe
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To: Moonman62

The miracle is the Washington Post is publishing this.


7 posted on 11/07/2017 5:47:40 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Moonman62

The armed civilian is the first responder.


8 posted on 11/07/2017 5:47:45 PM PST by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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Willeford was interviewed by Crowder. In the interview he said he first saw this killer by his car which was still running. That is when they started trading shots.
9 posted on 11/07/2017 5:47:57 PM PST by Nateman (The louder the left screams , the better it is for America!)
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To: ForYourChildren

When seconds matter, the police are only minutes away.


10 posted on 11/07/2017 5:50:07 PM PST by henkster (The View: A psychiatric group therapy session where the shrink has stepped out of the room.)
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To: Moonman62

Hard to believe this is a WaPo story since it acknowledges that an armed citizen intervened and made a difference for those who survived the murderous attack. This is also the first story I’ve seen that details the injuries caused by Willeford’s shots with leg and torso hits, followed by the perp taking himself out with the head shot.


11 posted on 11/07/2017 5:50:07 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: McGavin999

We used to have insane asylums where the mentally ill were confined and they tried to help them. Whatever happened to them? Why are the mentally ill wandering the streets?
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Leftists think it’s mean to lock up insane people.


12 posted on 11/07/2017 5:52:44 PM PST by Pravious
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To: Nateman

Yes, Very worthwhile video to view.


13 posted on 11/07/2017 5:55:09 PM PST by Techster
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To: Pravious

Leftists think it’s mean to lock up insane people.


^^^^ THAT ^^^^


14 posted on 11/07/2017 5:55:11 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: T-Bird45

“followed by the perp taking himself out with the head shot.”

View the interview with Crowder and you’ll get an alternate view.


15 posted on 11/07/2017 5:57:03 PM PST by mazda77
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To: McGavin999

Because the courts said they were illegal, forcing the mentally ill out onto the streets.


16 posted on 11/07/2017 5:57:08 PM PST by rstrahan
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To: Moonman62

more here

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3602655/posts


17 posted on 11/07/2017 5:57:58 PM PST by bitt (press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally)
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To: T-Bird45
Hard to believe this is a WaPo story since it acknowledges that an armed citizen intervened and made a difference for those who survived the murderous attack.

Treasure this moment.

It is likely it will be the only time that particular fact will ever grace their pages.

18 posted on 11/07/2017 5:59:03 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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To: McGavin999

Everyone saw ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEXT and decided they needed to close them as they were Bad, bad, bad!
Then vagrancy laws were done away with and now the released mentally ill are all over the place making everyone less secure.


19 posted on 11/07/2017 6:00:06 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Was the shooter inside the church when Willeford engaged him?


20 posted on 11/07/2017 6:03:11 PM PST by Rebelbase (There are only two genders. The rest are mental disorders.)
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