Excellent news item. The only one involved unharmed and actually saving a life is the only one not mentioned in the official statement. :-/
Occurs to me a few odd points about the article"s account of the events:
1) The samaritan left his vehicle w/o being armed (not so strange, but... inadvisable?) and had to ask the officer being assaulted by the highway shooter/assailant if he required assistance (situational awareness?? - the officer was reportedly already shot and getting his head pounded into the pavement).
2) How was the officer able to respond "please help me" while getting his head pounded in the pavement?
3) The samaritan then goes back to his car and retrieves his gun while the assailant continues to pummel the officer? Did the assailant just disregard the samaraitan all together?
4) Samaritan returns and shoots the assailant. What happened to the assailant"s firearm he used to shoot the officer?
Anyways - very strange. Maybe lucky for the samaritan and the officer that the assailant was spaced?? Tactical fail all around. If I saw a bloodied officer getting his head pounded I think I would have drawn down from cover/concealment before even approaching. At the very least not advertise my posistion while assessing.
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