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Gunman Attempts To Storm Fort Leonard Wood
US Election News ^ | 5/12/11 | Jillian Curtin

Posted on 05/12/2011 3:29:18 PM PDT by Nachum

According to televised reports from Fox News, a man with an AK-47 attempted to storm the entrance gate to Fort Leonard Wood, two hours from St. Louis Missouri, police and guardsmen responded and chased the suspect who is in custody.

Missouri police identified the gunman as Cody Wilcoxson. According to a spokesman from the military base, where a large number of new recruits complete their Basic Combat Training, Wilcoxson attempted to gain entry to the base earlier this morning at the West Gate and handed over a form of identification, which the guard declined for security purposes. When prompted for another form of ID Wilcoxson apparently drove through the gate, where Military Police chased him until he drove back through a separate gate and regular police took up the chase. According to the breaking news report from Fox News, Wilcoxson was shooting through the driver side window and the sunroof of his vehicle, and headed towards the Missouri University of Science and Technology, which has been locked down since the occurrence. Reports from around 9AM this morning from theschool said that a gunman was seen on campus entering buildings, and then left approximately 15 minutes.

Officers laid down stop sticks and disabled the gunman’s vehicle, which he abandoned and then stole another car, which he also crashed. He is reportedly in custody of the Missouri State Police at this time, and could have been injured on his hand. No motive for the event has been reported as of the time of this writing.


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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Is it just me or does this guy have a really large neck? Or maybe a small head? Enquiring minds...


21 posted on 05/12/2011 6:25:53 PM PDT by VoiceOfBruck (Get crazy with the cheese whiz!)
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To: askrenr

Figured he was a muzzie. Oh, well you have crazies in all colors. Next que is how’d an excon get that fire power. Some one needs to do time for selling it to him. It’s 10 yrs in TN if you do that.


22 posted on 05/12/2011 6:36:00 PM PDT by GailA (2012 rally cry DEMOCRATS and RINOS are BAD for the USA!)
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To: Michael.SF.

Prison’s are prime recruiting grounds.


23 posted on 05/12/2011 6:50:55 PM PDT by GailA (2012 rally cry DEMOCRATS and RINOS are BAD for the USA!)
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To: Grams A

Must be harvesting the latest crop of dumbed down kids with the added bonus of all those “attention deficit disorder” drugs during the formative years. It’s that characteristic lights on nobody home look, imo.


24 posted on 05/12/2011 7:23:41 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: askrenr

Ya must be, he has weak sauce charges here in Missouri..

https://www.courts.mo.gov/casenet/cases/nameSearch.do


25 posted on 05/12/2011 9:51:26 PM PDT by Molon Labbie
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To: Ronin
i was station at Ft Leonard Wood (FLW) a few years ago. In face I still have a house there if anyone is looking to buy one. It is a nice house. They do have Dept of the Army Security Guards at the gates to augment the MP’s there. They are pretty well trained. The main gate is at the end of a long straight strip of the main road in St Robert/Waynesville. They OFTEN have drunks that head down that road with no idea the access control point is there. There are others that get confused when they hit the gate. Some of these yahoos run the gate. Can you imagine if the guard shot some elderly confused driver or some lost drunk? The gate has procedures if someone runs the gate. There is no major facility for over a mile. And FLW is the home of the Military Police. Things happened as designed. I understand your point on stopping the guy hard, but in the current PC climate that just ain't going to happen.
26 posted on 05/12/2011 10:07:44 PM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: Ronin

Obviously an “army of one.”


27 posted on 05/12/2011 10:12:03 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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