He had recently been in contact with some of the family, had cancer and would be going away on a long trip.
One of the victims was 98. The youngest victim, a male nurse, was 39.
Prayers going out to all the families and deepest condolences.
Spend the savings on a medal.
He should have fired multiple shots until the POS was sure to be taking the "eternal dirt nap".
I’m glad Officer Garner did not wait for “sufficient force” and/or the SWAT team to arrive.
“He was stopped by a single shot to the chest” Well obviously he was not “Stopped” or he would not have been able to return fire and wound the police officer. “Stopped” is when the shooter can do no further harm.
Please stop revealing your ignorance and lack of awareness of how these things go down.
This officer saved probably more than a few lives and all you armchair QBs can do is disparage his effectiveness?
The report probably lacks all the facts, perhaps only one shot hit the threat, maybe the officer had to thread a needle and make his one shot count.
I doubt if any of you have ever experienced what this officer has and your ridiculous “double tap” and austerity budget comments are quite sophomoric (without thought).
I am very glad that it only took one good hit to stop the badness. If in fact he fired only one shot that would be a credit to his coolness under fire (have any of you been to see the elephant?). Though not. PS- he did this while hit multiple times, probably on the ground or immobilized; I would like to shake his hand and give him a medal myself.
Yet another example of: “The bad shooting stops when the good gun shows up”!
Unfortunately here in Texas, private citizens carrying a concealed weapon at a nursing home or hospital or other health institution is illegal.
Had the nurse that was shot been carrying, could he have stopped the shooter? We’ll never know.
Officer Garner needs more range time. Unfortunately, he only wounded the gunman. Would have saved us taxpayers a lot of trouble if Officer Garner had killed the gunman.
The cop made one mistake...he took the guy down with a single shot to the chest, but the gunman could have been wearing armor and could have taken the cop out. The proper procedure where you have a homocidal gunman is to fire multiple bullets to the chest and one to the head in case the gunman is wearing body armor. We need to stop being so upset when the police permanently take out a gunman.
I think it was his current, but estranged wife that works at the center. I have not seen any interviews with or statements by her. She may have been the original target.