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Mon Jun 24, 2024, 05:29 AM Jun 2024

Arkansas 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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Arkansas nurse was treating mass shooting victim when she herself was killed (Original Post) sl8 Jun 2024 OP
. bucolic_frolic Jun 2024 #1
FUCK ALITO. FUCK THOMAS. 3Hotdogs Jun 2024 #2
why single out him? Skittles Jun 2024 #5
The US Supreme Court must be so proud. Irish_Dem Jun 2024 #3
The Mad Butcher.... OAITW r.2.0 Jun 2024 #4

Skittles

(157,256 posts)
5. why single out him?
Mon Jun 24, 2024, 11:51 AM
Jun 2024

the entire so-called "pro-life" party doesn't give a DAMN about the victims of mass shootings

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