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.
May God richly bless this man, Stephen Willeford, who bravely stepped into the gap to stop that monster.
Yes, I posted to that fact at least twice on this thread.
“The Texas church madman was a disgraced Air Force veteran who was court-marshaled in 2012 after assaulting his wife and child, reports said.
Devin Patrick Kelley, who joined the military in 2010,was given a dishonorable discharge and slapped with 12 months of confinement in 2014 after his court marshaling, CBS News reported.
The military said Sunday that Kelly served in Logistics Readiness at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico from 2010 until his discharge.
The Pentagon also confirmed that Kelley was an airman “at one point,” but did not provide additional details.
Kelly was married and lived in a wooded area on the rural, western outskirts of New Braunfels, north of San Antonio.
His mother-in-law has a post-office box in Sutherland Springs, where he launched his massacre, about 50 minutes away.”
http://nypost.com/2017/11/05/texas-church-shooter-was-a-dishonorably-discharged-air-force-veteran/
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"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."
My best guess would be that it was a tactical vest rather than ballistic vest. alphabet news doesn't know the difference. It is harder to buy a true ballistic vest than most folks realize.
Most rifle round will punch a hole right through a bullet proof vest.
Yes, exactly.
Here’s another one. Most (but not all) atheists and secular humanists are political leftists. The political left wants gun control, because of a shooting committed by one of their own loonies. Wait...hasn’t this been the case for many of the recent mass shootings?? Even back to Columbine? So let’s implement strict control and registration of atheists and secular humanists.
My church has a lot of LEOs and they and others I know with a CCW carry in church.
Thanks! I didn’t read every post on this thread, but thank you for pointing it out.
This is so poorly written. Any Freeper could have done a better job.
“Thank the Lord that heroes with guns, Stephen Willeford and Johnnie Langendorff, were there to end this.”
I’d like to shake their hands and buy them a steak dinner.
FIFLOL
Yes, I sometimes don't either before posting. And never when they are 100+ posts! :)
Does anyone else *still* want to punch pajama boy right in his simper?
TX AG: I would rather arm law-abiding citizens... as opposed to trying to pass laws that would prevent law-abiding citizens from having guns pic.twitter.com/Vo10Zlzdjg— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 6, 2017
.@GregAbbott_TX: "[The shooter] was perhaps surprised and shocked when a neighbor came out and did shoot him and connected with him." pic.twitter.com/MfYMo7Fhmt— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 6, 2017
.@GregAbbott_TX: "I don't think the church was just randomly attacked. I think there was a reason chose this church." pic.twitter.com/B2HFmtZVqo— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 6, 2017
I don’t care what you guys think.
A Vigilante cannot shoot kelley sitting in a Mcdonalds eating a hamburger just because he just killed 50 people. If he is sitting there waving around a gun that would be a different story
Laying on the side of the road dying with no action on his behalf...you can’t walk up and execute him.
Sitting in a car dying...depends on circumstances
http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/PE/htm/PE.9.htm
“mixed shot and slugs”
You can buy real handy buck-and-ball rounds. :-) Check ‘em out.
not armor plate.
Now that you mention that I’m also looking into the waxed shot loads that Taofledermaus has on his YouTube channel.
Hot wax soaked shot rounds, acts like a frangible slug.
Prudent man rule would be easy in court:
Prosecutor: "Why, Mr. Plumber did you chase down the alleged shooter and kill him as he fled?! He was obviously not a threat anymore since he left".
Mr. Plumber: "I killed him because I thought that if I didn't he would be an imminent danger to society. Case in point, he just shot up a church. I thought that if he was going to do that, maybe he's on the way to shoot up YOUR church Mr. Prosecutor".
Judge/Jury: "Not Guilty. Case dismissed. Prosecutor, will you please step back into my chambers? "
And he deliberately picked a place where he knew guns were banned: A church.
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