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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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To: Publius

I am wondering about the impact of modern media on the shooter. Could sitting at home and watching beheading videos all day make you callous enough to shoot babies at point blank range?


41 posted on 11/07/2017 6:32:27 PM PST by beef (Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
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To: beef

My first thought about this guy was that he was one of the Deep State’s mind-controlled zombies.


42 posted on 11/07/2017 6:33:34 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: McGavin999

In a nutshell it was legal rulings and legislative action that emptied the asylums. It was mean to keep crazy people locked up against their will. It didn’t help that you had high profile cases of people being committed because they were someone’s “problem” or roadblock, or that facilities often attracted sadistic POS’s that used the job to lord over the mentally impaired.


43 posted on 11/07/2017 6:35:25 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: beef

He was a CNN and CBS fan


44 posted on 11/07/2017 6:35:31 PM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Kind of like crime movies and suppressors...


45 posted on 11/07/2017 6:37:35 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Moonman62

The word “hero” is thrown around too much. But not in this case. This man IS a hero.


46 posted on 11/07/2017 6:42:36 PM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: Moonman62

Bless him. I hope he receives the highest civilian honor, not that it will change his memory of that day.


47 posted on 11/07/2017 6:43:39 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: combat_boots

Parents have quite a spread

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/11/06/who-is-devin-patrick-kelley-gunman-who-officials-say-killed-churchgoers-in-sutherland-springs/?utm_term=.9e449c105e54

Neighbors heard gunfire. He practiced


48 posted on 11/07/2017 6:43:53 PM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: JohnnyP

He also said he got him in the neck. He later stated he might have hit him again near the neck as Kelly started to drive off.


49 posted on 11/07/2017 6:44:33 PM PST by mazda77
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To: McGavin999
Whatever happened to them? Why are the mentally ill wandering the streets?

You can thank Geraldo Rivera and the ACLU for the demise of mental hospitals/asylums. I won't dispute that some of them were horrid but to totally release people onto the streets with no place to go and no mental health resources did them no favor.

50 posted on 11/07/2017 6:44:36 PM PST by 2nd amendment mama (Self Defense is a Basic Human Right!)
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To: mazda77

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

I have heard all kinds of reports by the “ill informed media how the perp died, so what is it?

1. Supposedly the perp was shot by the church neighbor when the neighbor entered the church after hearing the shots, and consequently shot the perp as he exited the church.

2. The perp was shot by that same neighbor as the neighbor met him face to face as the perp exited the church door. (PS, the perp dropped his AR then).

3. The same neighbor, shot the perp as he tried to get into the get away truck.

4. The perp shot himself in the head. (I could go on).....

The point is WHAT THE HELL REALLY HAPPENED? WHO SHOT WHO AND WHEN? How ‘bout we get to talk to the neighbor who did some of the shooting? He will probably be the ONLY ONE to tell the real facts and truth.

It’s been long enough now to decipher who did the final/fatal shooting.


51 posted on 11/07/2017 6:48:53 PM PST by DaveA37
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To: Toespi

I have read they got her (Rosemary) a frontal lobotomy once she started having “hormonal issues” which influenced her behavior.
So it’s a double standard that Teddy never had a lobotomy...


52 posted on 11/07/2017 6:49:23 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: JohnnyP
just that he aimed at the gap in his body armor.

Aim small...miss small.

53 posted on 11/07/2017 6:50:17 PM PST by spokeshave (The Fake Media tried to stop us from going to the White House, I am President and they are not. DJT)
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To: T-Bird45

“I don’t give much weight to his “certified” status for his involvement.”......

Being a good shot or being “certified” has NOTHING to do with being a good Samaritan who happens to be a good shot as well. Carrying a piece of paper (certification) does not mean he wasn’t “qualified”.


54 posted on 11/07/2017 6:53:01 PM PST by DaveA37
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To: Pravious

Wait, I always hear Liberals blaming Reagan for putting the Mentally Ill on the Streets and for causing the AIDS Epidemic.


55 posted on 11/07/2017 6:56:00 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.Does the Government)
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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? ............................... They’re allowed to run loose, mainly because they are considered a large voting block for the Democrat Party.


56 posted on 11/07/2017 7:01:05 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft (Damn, the tag line disappeared again? Coursors!)
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To: metmom

Sounds likely.


57 posted on 11/07/2017 7:06:05 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: McGavin999

The shooter escaped from one.


58 posted on 11/07/2017 7:08:11 PM PST by Defiant (It's not antifa, it's actually antifafa. Antifa Fascists.)
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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?...”

They were all released so that they could become part of the RAT voting party. Unfortunately, they bred and created the LIB monster we have in this country today. Libs are totally insane and need to be placed back into asylums.


59 posted on 11/07/2017 7:10:19 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: DaveA37

Dave, View the entire interview that Crowder did with the man who engaged and shot the perp. I was only going off on his words, nobody else.

The link is further up in this thread.


60 posted on 11/07/2017 7:10:39 PM PST by mazda77
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