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.
By the way, notice in the story, the killer had an assault rifle. But the citizen just had “his rifle”?
Got any data to back this up?!?
Luke 22:38
And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said to them, It is enough.
Matthew 10:34
"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
And as it stands, they're saying he took his own life.
Dream on. This isn’t the DC brie and wine-sip circuit. There are zero issues with shooting Kelley. There will be no cases arising out of it in Texas. You need to get out more.
I think you are over thinking this thing.
They called 9-11 while they were in pursuit. These two deserve a medal...
Analyzing legalities.
Some people do it.
Some people just make wild ass claims that you can kill a killer NO MATTER WHAT
Texas law didn’t ban them...but the church can have its own policy.
You are mad if you think a citizen can execute a person even in Texas just because he is a Psycho Killer and just killed people
My Mcdonald’s example is a perfect case in point.
True.
One has to wait until deep into the night when he is bed with his wives in a compound in Abbottabad.
“Well do ya?”
My first thought too.
A typo typo!!
Who wooda guessed?!?!
Get outta DC sweetie. Yes, you could have followed him to McDonalds and shot him down. If the cops arrive you have to stop and let them take over.
You really need a reality check on Texas legalities, and how they are shaped by the culture. East coasters need not apply.
I’d bet a paint ball gun would stop him; if shot in the eye!
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