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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Gun carrying man ends stabbing spree at grocery store
2012-07-28
SALT LAKE CITY - A citizen with a gun stopped a knife wielding man as he began stabbing people Thursday evening at the downtown Salt Lake City Smith's store. Police say the suspect purchased a knife inside the store and then turned it into a weapon. Smith's employee Dorothy Espinoza says, "He pulled it out and stood outside the Smiths in the foyer. And just started stabbing people and yelling you killed my people. You killed my people."

Espinoza says, the knife wielding man seriously injured two people. "There is blood all over. One got stabbed in the stomach and got stabbed in the head and held his hands and got stabbed all over the arms."

Then, before the suspect could find another victim - a citizen with a gun stopped the madness. "A guy pulled gun on him and told him to drop his weapon or he would shoot him. So, he dropped his weapon and the people from Smith's grabbed him."
Outstanding job, good citizen. Kept your head, got the job done, and didn't have to shoot. Most excellent!
By the time officers arrived the suspect had been subdued by employees and shoppers.

Police had high praise for gun carrying man who ended the hysteria.
As they should.
Hysteria? I might have used a different word -- carnage, perhaps.
Lt. Brian Purvis said, "This was a volatile situation that could have gotten worse. We can only assume from what we saw it could have gotten worse. He was definitely in the right place at the right time."
Well done, O anonymous citizen!
Dozens of other shoppers, who too could have become victims, are also thankful for the gun carrying man. And many, like Danylle Julian, are still in shock from the experience. "Scary actually. Really scary. Five minutes before I walk out to my car. It could have been me."
Posted by:Steve White

#7  What p-moto said. Remember the CO church gunman, the mall gunman, the guy in AZ whose house was attacked, all these good guy stories don't get told or remembered.

(though I think it was debated about the AZ house, why would there be a coordinated attack on his house?)
Posted by: swksvolFF   2012-07-28 23:18  

#6  Say it with me, "When seconds count the police are only minutes away". Memorize it and act accordingly.
Bye now.
Posted by: past master of the obvious   2012-07-28 23:04  

#5  Not so fast.
Posted by: Perfesser   2012-07-28 12:06  

#4  So why wait till now to run with this?

Took them this long to confirm that Mr. Ly wasn't affiliated with any immigrant rights group and the CCW citizen didn't have any Tea Party, Religious, Conservative, or pro-life connections. Had there been an inkling or either, the story would have been big news on 28/4 (or earlier).
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2012-07-28 11:42  

#3  Hmmmm.....
Updated: 4/27 12:26 pm | Published: 4/26 8:20 pm
Reported by: Don Hudson

Gun carrying man ends stabbing spree at Salt Lake grocery store....


Seems a bit of old news. Further googling gets -

Thirty-four year old Kiet Thanh Ly, a South Vietnam national, bought a knife at a Salt Lake City Smith’s grocery store and then started stabbing people with it. He was able to seriously injure 2 people before a 47-year old man with a CCW permit intervened by pointing his gun at Ly and ordering him to drop the weapon. As soon as Ly dropped the knife several customers swarmed him and held him down until police arrived. No shots were fired. Ly was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of attempted murder and aggravated assault. Two victims remained in very critical but stable condition Friday at a local hospital, according to local news stories.

Newspapers report that Ly has a lengthy criminal record for violence.

dated 27/4

So why wait till now to run with this?

Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-07-28 11:27  

#2  "He pulled it out and stood outside the Smiths in the foyer. And just started stabbing people and yelling you killed my people. You killed my people."

Hmm, no mention by ABC of the knife-weilding idiot's race, ethnicity, political orientation, religious beliefs, etc. Thus it's safe to assume that "his people" are not white, male, convervative or Christian.
Posted by: AzCat   2012-07-28 11:06  

#1  A story the gun-grabbers will never talk about. If one is waiting for the police to respond to a 911 incident, you could be long dead before they get there. It's not that the police don't have a good response time but it is generally not fast enough. There are thousands of stories such as reported in this story. You don't often hear about them in the MSM or from the gun-grabbers. There is a fundamental dishonesty on the part of the gun-grabbers. Hitler confiscated the firearms and then the people were screwed.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-07-28 11:03  

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