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In this version of the video of bystanders confronting the walmart stabbing perpretator (which doesn't have sound censored), if you listen closely about 22 seconds in, the soft spoken voice says put your head(?) on the ground. You hear another voice say okay, I'm muslim, then the soft spoken voice says lay on the ground... Aparrently, it is frowned upon by allah, for muslims to lay on their stomach, thus the comment why gilles doesn't want to lay down on the ground, supporting the comment he is muslim.

An armed bystander was seen on video heroically stopping a knife-wielding man who authorities say stabbed 11 people at a Walmart in Michigan on Saturday. The man, identified by family as Derrick Perry, is seen in the video pointing a firearm at the suspect in the store’s parking lot in Traverse City as he and other bystanders shout "drop the knife!" Perry is a Marine veteran, the New York Post reported, citing his family. "What they did was amazing," Grand Traverse County Sheriff Michael Shea told reporters during a media briefing on Sunday. Perry and the other bystanders ended the...

Last night, a man went on a stabbing spree at a Traverse City, Michigan Walmart injuring 11 people, 6 critically with 3 requiring surgery after the attack. Multiple injured in mass stabbing event at a Walmart in Traverse City, Michigan What in the world is happening??? NOTTHEBEE.COM https://notthebee.com/article/multiple-injured-in-mass-stabbing-event-at-a-walmart-in-traverse-city-michigan It should come as little surprise that last night's stabbing rampage ended because of a good guy with a gun. Watch: VIDEO AT LINK................. Yep. A good guy who happened to be carrying at Walmart ended what could have been a much worse attack because, as we all know, bringing a knife...

Dramatic video shows a heroic Walmart shopper armed with a gun confronting a knife-wielding maniac moments after he allegedly stabbed 11 people inside the Michigan store on Saturday night. Read more at https://nypost.com/2025/07/26/us-news/mass-stabbing-at-traverse-city-michigan-walmart/

Police on Sunday identified the 42-year-old man accused of wounding 11 people in a random stabbing spree at a Walmart in Michigan. Authorities identified the suspect as Bradford James Gille, of Afton, Michigan, on Sunday afternoon. Police are seeking to file terrorism charges and 11 charges of assault with intent to murder against Gille. Munson Healthcare, northern Michigan’s largest healthcare system, said seven victims were in fair condition and four were in serious condition. Their ages were not immediately provided.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Chaos unfolded at a Walmart in Michigan after a man burst into the store during a calm shopping afternoon and stabbed 11 people at random, authorities say. The attack on Saturday left six victims in critical condition and a suspect in custody. The 42-year-old suspect entered the store shortly before 5 p.m. and used a folding knife to stab 11 people, the Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement on social media. A sheriff’s deputy arrived within minutes and took the man into custody.

Heroic shoppers forced a man to drop his weapon after he stabbed 11 people inside a Walmart in Michigan on Saturday afternoon. The extraordinary moment four men confronted the deranged suspect in the parking lot of the Traverse City supermarket was caught on camera. During the urgency of the situation, one of the brave men lost his shoes and was walking barefoot as he ordered the knife-wielding man to drop his weapon. 'Get on the ground!" one of the men could be heard shouting. 'Drop the knife! Drop it!' another bellowed. 'Throw the knife that way! Throw it away!' the...

The victims were not predetermined,' Shea said, adding that the suspect, a Michigan resident, apparently acted alone. Shea said the weapon involved appeared to be a folding-style knife. Shea said the suspect is believed to be a Michigan resident but declined to share further details. Michigan State Police had said earlier in the day that the suspect was in authorities' custody.

A mass stabbing has occurred at a Walmart in Traverse City, Michigan. Get the latest on the Walmart stabbing attack in Traverse City, Michigan in our live breaking news coverage. In this interactive live stream, host Steve Lookner brings you the latest breaking news updates on the mass stabbing at a Walmart in Michigan (Traverse City, MI), and he’ll also read your comments and questions on the air!

Eleven people have been hurt after being stabbed during an incident at a Walmart in Traverse City, Michigan on Saturday afternoon. At least three of the victims were so badly hurt they required surgery. Witnesses say shoppers fled for their lives after a suspect brandished a knife inside the Walmart Supercenter on Crossing Circle just after 5pm. Police were seen interviewing workers from the supermarket across the street following the incident. Many were seem to still be wearing their Walmart overalls. One eyewitness posted to X how the incident occurred near the pharmacy counter with many of the victims said...

A beloved music director at a Michigan catholic church was fired after an unknown source informed church officials of his same-sex marriage — sparking outrage from parishioners, with many protesting and some renouncing their membership over the termination. Fred Szczepanski was canned from his position at St. Francis Church in Traverse City on Oct. 18 after the church officials discovered he had a same-sex marriage ceremony to his longtime partner in Nevada in 2020, according to Traverse City Record-Eagle. Szczepanski, known by churchgoers as “Mr. Fred,” was confronted by Rev. Michael Lingaur after church leaders received a letter from an...

President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will deliver remarks to the press on Border Security & Migrant Crime in Austin, Texas on Friday, October 25, 2024, at 12:30PM CDT. More illegal immigrants have been encountered at our nation's borders under Harris and Biden than all two-term presidents. Despite their empty promises of a "fair and humane immigration system," Harris' open-border policies are far from compassionate—they're lethal. Texas has seen the consequences firsthand. This year alone, a Salvadoran MS-13 gang member was arrested for drunk driving in Houston, the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua...

Michigan Republican Party Co-Chair Meshawn Maddock is under fire after sending out a homophobic tweet about Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. In the tweet, Maddock calls Buttigieg, who is gay, a "weak little girl," and references his move to Michigan. Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, moved to Traverse City with his husband, Chasten, who grew up in Traverse City. He also served in the U.S. Navy Reserve for eight years and was deployed to Afghanistan for seven months in 2014.

On Monday, November 2nd, President Donald J. Trump will deliver remarks at Make America Great Again Victory Rallies in Fayetteville, North Carolina at 11:30 AM EST, Scranton, Pennsylvania at 2:00 PM EST, Traverse City, Michigan at 5:00 PM EST, Kenosha, Wisconsin at 7:00 PM CST, and Grand Rapids, Michigan at 10:30 PM EST. The Make America Great Again Victory Rallies will feature remarks from President Donald J. Trump and Republican candidates.

KENT COUNTY, Mich. — President Donald Trump was scheduled to spend the final hours of the 2020 presidential election in Grand Rapids Monday night in a final push to win the battleground state of Michigan. Trump was expected to make two stops in Michigan on Monday: One in Traverse City, and one in Kent County at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport. The president also held a rally in Grand Rapids on the night before the 2016 election. Trump has fondly spoken of the final swing of campaign events in 2016 as a reason why he won the state of...

Jill Biden is making two stops in Michigan Tuesday to campaign on behalf of her husband, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Biden is scheduled to tour a farm in Central Lake, a village in Antrim County, then attend a voter mobilization event in Traverse City. Biden will be joined by Chasten Buttigieg, a Traverse City native and husband of Democratic primary candidate Pete Buttigieg. The visits are meant to highlight the impact of climate change on farmers and encourage Michigan voters to their ballot early. Last week, bsentee ballots began being sent to the nearly 2.4 million Michigan voters who...

Though the past winter was the hottest on record, it was chilly enough on the East Coast to send seasonal sheets of ice creeping across the Great Lakes. Now that that ice has cleared with spring, Lake Michigan is clear enough that shipwrecks lying on the lake bottom can be seen from the air. The U.S. Coast Guard Air Station in Traverse City noted the crystal clear water conditions and the lost ships during a routine patrol. Last week, they posted a handful of pictures to their Facebook page. The images come from the area near Sleeping Bear Point known...

Each spring on Lake Michigan, if you’re lucky, you’ll be able to see shipwrecks due to the incredibly clear springtime waters. Every winter, ice forms on the Great Lakes. That ice is often thick enough that the people who live on their shores can not only go ice fishing, but even ride snow mobiles across their surfaces. At the coming of spring, the ice melts, leaving the waters of some of the lakes especially clear for a while until warmer weather creates algae blooms and other events that reduce the water’s clarity. In the early spring, the waters of Lake...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — What if alternative energy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be? That’s the provocative question explored in the documentary Planet of the Humans, which is backed and promoted by filmmaker Michael Moore and directed by one of his longtime collaborators. It premiered last week at his Traverse City Film Festival.

68 years after disappearing during the Korean War, this soldier is finally home Jordan Travis, The Record-Eagle July 27, 2019 at 10:56 AM U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Leah Ferrante TRAVERSE CITY — At long last, U.S. Army Cpl. Charles Stanley Lawler is home. The former Traverse City resident's remains arrived at Cherry Capital Airport Thursday afternoon, 68 years after he disappeared in a Korean War battle. A parade of police vehicles and veterans on motorcycles rolled with the hearse, taking Lawler on his second-to-last trip to Covell Funeral Home where a military honor guard awaited. People came out to pay...