CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A woman in West Virginia fatally shot a man who began firing an AR-15-style rifle into a crowd of people that had gathered for a party, authorities said.
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Dennis Butler, 37, was killed Wednesday night after he pulled out the rifle and began shooting at dozens of people attending the birthday-graduation party outside an apartment complex in the city of Charleston, police said in a statement.
The woman, who was attending the party, drew a pistol and fired, killing Butler, the statement said. No one at the party was injured.
“Instead of running from the threat, she engaged with the threat and saved several lives last night,” Chief of Detectives Tony Hazelett told news outlets Thursday.
Butler was at the apartment complex earlier in the evening in a vehicle and had been warned to slow down because children were playing, police said. They said he left, but returned later, parked in front of the complex and began firing.
After fatally shooting Butler, the woman waited along with several witnesses for police to arrive, and all have cooperated with the investigation, authorities said.
Hazelett said no charges would be filed against the woman.
She should get a medal
How it is supposed to work.
People are just to dumb to get it
The bad guys – whether criminals or evil governments
Will always have guns
That’s why we have a second amendment
Because we have an absolute right to protect ourselves when it all goes down
Yes, there will be bad things happening with guns- but even if guns were theoretically banned, many of these would still happen. You think the mafia wouldn’t be able to get guns? The black market would EXPLODE with guns. Pardon the pun.
People who want to kill, will find a way. If they don’t have a gun, they’ll use a bomb, a knife, a car. A gun is just one option.
About time, a good person with a gun gets a bad person with a gun!
West Virginia has some of the most lax gun laws as well as a strong gun culture so many people there carry. Their state motto is “Mountaineers are always free” It’s built in to take care of yourself and not rely on the govt.
This is proof republican policy is correct.
Just curious why people don’t think this happens in other parts of the world. I guess when millions are killed that’s different. The jews were constantly murdered in many parts of the world. Arabs kill Arabs and blacks kill blacks and no one blinked an eyelash.
Why are all these incidents happening under the Biden administration?
She should have been at the Texan school.
One very rarely hears these killings anywhere around the world. Here in the US It’s completely out of control and there’s no light at the end of the tunnel either.
The Republicans will NEVER agree to any form of gun control. The Democrats are too busy molding into progressive socialists, whatever that means, and thus the MADNESS continues, oh, it will continue !!!
THE 2ND AMENDMENT DOES NOT CONFER THE RIGHT OF INDIVIDUALS TO BEAR ARMS. It was for “well regulated militias” to fend off Indian attacks and put down Black slave rebellions. Learn something.
America and it’s guns. Total madness. If there were no guns like in the rest of the world, no-one would be dead including the mental or psycho guy.