Posted on 07/19/2022 7:26:02 AM PDT by grundle
Charleston, W.Va. — Police say a woman's actions may have prevented a mass casualty event following an altercation about a man speeding through a neighborhood.
"She did the right thing. I don't know if any other person would have done that," said Lt. Tony Hazelett with the Charleston Police Department.
Charleston police said it all started when 37-year-old Dennis Butler was speeding up and down a parking lot inside the Vista View apartments.
He was approached by people attending a graduation party and a birthday party, who asked him to slow down, as children were playing.
Witnesses said Butler seemed agitated and left but returned to the complex shortly after, armed with an AR-15 style rifle, and started shooting at the crowd.
Police said a woman pulled out her pistol, shooting and killing him.
"This lady was carrying a lawful firearm," Hazelett said. "A law abiding citizen who stopped the threat of probably 20 or 30 people getting killed. She engaged the threat and stopped it. She didn't run from the threat, she engaged it. Preventing a mass casualty event here in Charleston."
Police said Butler has an extensive criminal history.
In 2016, he was accused of shooting and pistol whipping a 19-year-old woman, but those charges were dismissed because no witnesses testified at a pretrial hearing.
Court records showed Butler had been convicted of two felonies in the past, so he should have not had a gun.
Speaking about the woman, Hazelett said, "She's just a member of the community who was carrying her firearm lawfully, and instead of running from the threat, she engaged with the threat and saved several lives last night."
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> That said, be very wise and make sure you realize the extent of what is happening before you so that you make no mistake and end up dead or in prison. <
To which I’d add: Make sure that when the cops show up, they don’t mistake you for the bad guy. There was an incident awhile back where a good guy with a gun stopped a criminal. Then the cops showed up and promptly shot and killed the good guy.
I think that more than 20 % of rifle purchases are AR platforms, so there’s that.
Butler had an extensive criminal history & yet he’s out there running loose??? What’s up with law enforcement there? Were they waiting for a real tragedy before locking him up? Seems to me that every time there is a criminal like this there are more in law enforcement that need to go to jail with him unless they do their job. I know it would fill the jails a lot faster, but there has to be justice done somehow.
Butler had an extensive criminal history & yet he’s out there running loose??? What’s up with law enforcement there? Were they waiting for a real tragedy before locking him up? Seems to me that every time there is a criminal like this there are more in law enforcement that need to go to jail with him unless they do their job. I know it would fill the jails a lot faster, but there has to be justice done somehow.
nah - they’re just very popular, and spit out a lot of rounds.
Well, some people are constantly looking for the opportunity to be offended.
Or, as we used to say, they have a chip on their shoulder and are daring someone else to knock it off.
It’s just way, way more common than it used to be. Besides, we’re being taught that they have a perfect right to carry around that huge chip, and we’re at fault if we even accidentally bump it.
I did hear this guy told the cops immediately. The bad guy was already dead when cops got there, But if the exchange was still going on between good guy and bad guy when the cops arrive, it could be bad for the good guy like you were saying.
Bravo!
Perhaps this should be a rule of thumb for the good guys:
Don’t be holding a gun in your hand when the cops arrive.
No, you’re probably not paranoid.
LOL facts is facts
The Belligerent Generation was never disciplined, so we’ll just have to kill them as they get out of control.
I hadn’t heard it.
Was it posted here?
Thanks to this heroine, the Butler DIDN’T do it.
Red Flag laws are for singling out and unjustly emasculating law abiding statistically likely Trump voters.
It seems as if it suits the purposes of the powers-that-be to see to it that the all of the members of every OTHER class of person/citizen not already convicted of a felony violation are allowed and encouraged to run free and to engage with aolomb in whatever antisocial or psychotic mayhem suits their respective fancies.
aplomb...
Of course he did.
She’s just doing the work the justice system won’t do.
Right?
Even paranoids can have real enemies.
Social contagion is how these mass casualty shootings are organized and instigated. No direct contact with the shooter is required.
Till the fields, sow the seeds, wait for seasonal rains, and watch the crop come in. The individual stalks do not matter very much and are not predictable. But at the end of the summer, there is a harvest available.
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