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ClarendonDem

(720 posts) Mon Nov 6, 2017, 08:43 AM Nov 2017

Unlikely hero article regarding yesterdays church shooting

The man in black hauled off in his SUV. The second man with the rifle — a neighbor unidentified as of Sunday night — came to Langendorff. The two men were strangers. “He briefed me quickly on what had just happened and said he had to get him,” Langendorff said later. “So that’s what I did.”

More at the link - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/11/06/an-unlikely-hero-describes-gun-battle-and-95-mph-chase-with-texas-shooting-suspect/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-high_mm-langendorff-602am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.2adf38217a9c

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Unlikely hero article regarding yesterdays church shooting (Original Post) ClarendonDem Nov 2017 OP

Watched the interview several times Watchfoxheadexplodes Nov 2017 #1

Oh bullshit...no more automatic guns...no heroes ...not with more than 25 people dead. Demsrule86 Nov 2017 #2

Devin Kelley dropped his rifle after being shot and fled, effectively ending his rampage. EL34x4 Nov 2017 #3

Watchfoxheadexplodes

(3,496 posts)

1. Watched the interview several times

Reply to ClarendonDem (Original post)

Mon Nov 6, 2017, 09:12 AM

Nov 2017

Struck me odd he used the words briefed and pursuit.

Demsrule86

(68,539 posts)

2. Oh bullshit...no more automatic guns...no heroes ...not with more than 25 people dead.

Reply to ClarendonDem (Original post)

Mon Nov 6, 2017, 09:27 AM

Nov 2017

EL34x4

(2,003 posts)

3. Devin Kelley dropped his rifle after being shot and fled, effectively ending his rampage.

Reply to Demsrule86 (Reply #2)

Mon Nov 6, 2017, 09:50 AM

Nov 2017

Who's to say he wasn't planning on going to another location and shooting even more people?

I would consider the two armed civilians who stopped him "heroes" in my book.

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