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Virginia employee sacrifices life: 'I gotta check on everybody else'
www.channel3000.com ^ | Updated: Jun 03, 2019 10:23 AM CDT | Christina Maxouris

Posted on 06/03/2019 9:00:23 AM PDT by Red Badger

As a gunman opened fire inside Building 2 of the Virginia Beach Municipal Center on Friday, everyone was scrambling for safety.

But not Ryan Keith Cox.

"If it wasn't for him, there would have been several more people that had perished," city employee Christi Dewar told CNN affiliate WAVY.

Dewar didn't budge when she first heard the gunshots. The building was under construction, and she thought that was behind the popping sounds.

But she began to run alongside her colleagues when she heard people yelling "active shooter," she told WAVY.

That's when she saw Cox, who told her to get inside a colleague's office "now."

"Barricade the office," she said he told her.

"'I said 'Come on Keith' and he said 'I gotta check on everybody else,'" Dewar told the affiliate.

"We closed and locked the door and we pushed the cabinet up against the door," she said.

Not long after she heard the shooter attempt to enter the office and then fire four shots.

"I looked out and two of the shots had almost come through the cabinet, the back of the cabinet."

Cox never returned. He was one of 12 people killed in the shooting.

Cox, an account clerk, had worked in the public utilities department for 12½ years.

"He was a hero," Dewar said. "A guardian angel that walked this earth that didn't deserve to leave us so soon."

Cox's brother posted photos of him on Facebook Saturday and shared a note.

"My heart is hurting because my baby brother was murdered today by the shooter in Virginia Beach mass shooting," he wrote.

"I won't (hear) his beautiful singing voice at church or home anymore. I loved my brother and will truly miss his caring soul. Until we meet again in heaven."


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1 posted on 06/03/2019 9:00:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Greater Love hath no Man....


2 posted on 06/03/2019 9:08:59 AM PDT by Waverunner (I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
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To: Red Badger

Why not a picture of the hero?
Bless him


3 posted on 06/03/2019 9:13:20 AM PDT by Guenevere
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To: Guenevere

4 posted on 06/03/2019 9:18:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

RIP

There seems to be a growing trend of people not being passive, not just running away. People like this man are seeking to help others, or — as in other recent cases — people are confronting the bad guy.

These things make a difference. And if we allowed folks to carry in more locations, the nuts out there would be less eager to go hunting.


5 posted on 06/03/2019 9:20:14 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Red Badger

Ryan Keith Cox is a hero.

In a just, constitutional world, he wouldn’t have had to confront a maniac unarmed.


6 posted on 06/03/2019 9:28:01 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: Guenevere; Red Badger; Waverunner

Hero.
May his name live forever:
Ryan Keith Cox

7 posted on 06/03/2019 9:33:16 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends." - John 15:13)
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To: Waverunner

AMEN!


8 posted on 06/03/2019 9:35:22 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Rinnwald

Still haven’t heard whether or not this guy was a recent convert to Islam..................


9 posted on 06/03/2019 9:38:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

I should think they should have bullet-proof shields available for people to use if they will not support CC. If a shield was handy you could charge a shooter and knock him down.


10 posted on 06/03/2019 9:57:34 AM PDT by kickstart ("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane')
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To: kickstart
Interesting thought. A shield makes a pretty good weapon to bash enemies with, just ask any medieval knight...if they were still around.

I'd still rather have a 12 gauge. But given the choice between nothing at all, and a bulletproof shield....

11 posted on 06/03/2019 10:38:07 AM PDT by wbill
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To: ClearCase_guy

“There seems to be a growing trend of people not being passive,,,”

True dat.
People realizing the cops & governmant can’t protect us. We’re on our own.

Question is, are we seeing the seeds of revolution growing?

Though I hate the idea of quoting Yoko Ono, it’s shaping up as “a war between the sane and the insane.”


12 posted on 06/03/2019 10:46:19 AM PDT by mumblypeg (I've seen the future, brother. It is murder. --L. Cohen)
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To: ClearCase_guy
There seems to be a growing trend of people not being passive, not just running away. People like this man are seeking to help others, or — as in other recent cases — people are confronting the bad guy. These things make a difference. And if we allowed folks to carry in more locations, the nuts out there would be less eager to go hunting.

well said

13 posted on 06/03/2019 10:48:25 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Keith Cox looks like the kind of man you’d sit down and have a coffee with, share a laugh, maybe have on your Wednesday night bowling team - just an all-around good guy. It’s a real tragedy, but these are the ones who never stop to think about themselves. “Others need help and that’s why I’m here” is foremost in their minds. What would we do without them?

God bless him; we all could use some of his courage. R.I.P.


14 posted on 06/03/2019 11:15:15 AM PDT by beelzepug (OCD and proud of it!)
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To: Red Badger

Pushed her into an office, and went to check on others. And two young men have died neutralizing the last two school shooters. A man saved his daughter yesterday by repeatedly punching a shark in the face.

Lot of toxic masculinity stories out there. I haven’t heard of many women leaping to the attack when things get really deadly.

This is why men should only be in combat arms.


15 posted on 06/03/2019 11:43:56 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: DesertRhino

Yep...................


16 posted on 06/03/2019 11:50:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

Thank-you!!!!

God bless this man.....

‘Well done thy good and faithful servant’


17 posted on 06/03/2019 1:04:58 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: Red Badger

A super hero. He saved 7 ladies lives. God bless him.


18 posted on 06/03/2019 2:55:22 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul.)
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