Air Force vet shot dead in Fla. courthouse

[unhappycamper]

Air Force vet shot dead in Fla. courthouse
By Anthony McCartney - The Associated Press
Posted : Friday May 9, 2008 10:31:07 EDT

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — About 12 seconds was all it took for two bailiffs to gun down a man who shot at them in a courthouse lobby, and authorities said the swift response helped prevent anyone else from being seriously hurt.

Glen Lee Powell carried a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun, 79 rounds of ammunition, an extra gun magazine, a lengthy fighting knife and a gas mask into the downtown St. Petersburg courthouse just after the lunch hour Wednesday.

The former Air Force senior airman fired at least two shots before Deputies B.J. Lyons and Marvin Glover fatally wounded him, Pinellas County sheriff’s Sgt. Jim Bordner said Thursday.

Four other people were in the lobby at the time of the shooting but the only other person hurt was Lyons, who was hit in the shoulder by a bullet that Bordner said may have been deflected by a piece of his two-way radio. He was treated and released from a hospital.

Bordner said about 12 seconds elapsed from the moment Powell entered the lobby until the gunfight ended.


Rest of article at: http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/05/ap_courtshooting_050808/

[Catch22Dem]

1. A very disturbed individual

His mother may not want to believe it, but he was there to kill people.