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Related: About this forumArkansas nurse was treating mass shooting victim when she herself was killed
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/arkansas-nurse-was-treating-mass-shooting-victim-when-she-herself-was-killed-2024-06-23/Arkansas nurse was treating mass shooting victim when she herself was killed
By Daniel Trotta
June 24, 2024 4:43 AM EDT Updated 44 min ago
June 23 (Reuters) - One of the four people killed in a mass shooting at an Arkansas grocery was a 23-year-old nurse who was shot dead while treating another victim, police said on Sunday.
"Instead of fleeing the store, she stopped to render aid in one of the most selfless acts I've ever seen," Colonel Mike Hagar, director of the Arkansas State police, said of the nurse, Callie Weems.
The gunman opened fire with a shotgun shortly before midday on Friday at the Mad Butcher grocery in Fordyce, a town of 3,200 people about 70 miles (110 km) south of Little Rock, killing four people and wounding nine.
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Weems, who comes from three generations of nurses, loved to ride horses and was nicknamed "Woodrow" after the character Woodrow Call from the book and television series "Lonesome Dove," the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported, citing an interview with her father, Tommy Weems.
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By Daniel Trotta
June 24, 2024 4:43 AM EDT Updated 44 min ago
June 23 (Reuters) - One of the four people killed in a mass shooting at an Arkansas grocery was a 23-year-old nurse who was shot dead while treating another victim, police said on Sunday.
"Instead of fleeing the store, she stopped to render aid in one of the most selfless acts I've ever seen," Colonel Mike Hagar, director of the Arkansas State police, said of the nurse, Callie Weems.
The gunman opened fire with a shotgun shortly before midday on Friday at the Mad Butcher grocery in Fordyce, a town of 3,200 people about 70 miles (110 km) south of Little Rock, killing four people and wounding nine.
[...]
Weems, who comes from three generations of nurses, loved to ride horses and was nicknamed "Woodrow" after the character Woodrow Call from the book and television series "Lonesome Dove," the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported, citing an interview with her father, Tommy Weems.
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Arkansas nurse was treating mass shooting victim when she herself was killed (Original Post)
sl8
Jun 2024
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3Hotdogs
(13,212 posts)2. FUCK ALITO. FUCK THOMAS.
Last edited Mon Jun 24, 2024, 04:11 PM - Edit history (1)
I wish Hell was real.
Skittles
(157,256 posts)5. why single out him?
the entire so-called "pro-life" party doesn't give a DAMN about the victims of mass shootings
Irish_Dem
(55,824 posts)3. The US Supreme Court must be so proud.
More Americans killed on US soil.
OAITW r.2.0
(27,430 posts)4. The Mad Butcher....
the irony of the store name is almost surreal.
That nurse was truly a hero.