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BainsBane

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Tue Jun 11, 2013, 11:10 PM Jun 2013

Woman's account of her experience facing the CA gunman with AR-15.

AR-15 performs as designed in Santa Monica

Santa Monica, California (CNN) -- By all accounts, suspected Santa Monica shooter John Zawahri was ready to inflict maximum harm.
He had multiple firearms and about 1,300 rounds of ammunition. Also, apparently, he had the capacity to kill.
Police say he killed his father and brother, along with three others, during a Friday afternoon rampage in Santa Monica, California.
But by some strokes of good luck, or because of quick thinking, Zawahri was not able to kill more.
"As soon as I looked him straight in the eye, I saw what he was going to do," said Deborah Fine.
She told CNN she saw the gunman pull over another woman and hold a rifle to her head.
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"I thought to myself, 'What are you doing? Why are you pointing this gun at her?' And so I put on my accelerator, I hit the gas, and I got in between the two of them," she said. . . .

"I'll never forget his eyes. They were just so intense and so cold," she said.
"I was somebody in the way, and I was somebody to get out of the way. And that's when he raised his rifle."
Bullets struck Fine three to four times across her body.


http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/10/justice/california-college-gunman/index.html?sr=fbfb061113santamonica1130a
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