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Off-Duty Firefighter Stops Man With Rifle in Missouri Walmart
A man carrying a rifle and wearing body armor was detained Thursday evening after causing a panic at a Missouri Walmart, according to police and local media reports.
The white male, who appeared to be in his 20s, walked into the Walmart Neighborhood Market in Springfield, Missouri wearing body armor and military fatigues and carrying tactical weapons as well as more than one hundred rounds of ammunition, the Springfield Police Department said, which responded within three minutes of being called.
The man was filming himself walking around the store pushing a cart when the store manager pulled the fire alarm to warn customers to escape. The man exited through an emergency exit.
An off-duty firefighter then held the heavily armed man at gunpoint until police arrived.
“His intent was not to cause peace or comfort to anybody that was in the business,” Police Lieutenant Mike Lucas said. “In fact, he’s lucky to be alive still to be honest.”
“Nobody was harmed, thankfully,” Lucas said. “Just a really scary, dangerous situation that thankfully got resolved, and everyone’s going home tonight.”
“All we know is the fact that he walked in here heavily armed with body armor on, in military fatigues and caused a great amount of panic inside the store. So he certainly had the capability the potential to harm people.”
The white male, who appeared to be in his 20s, walked into the Walmart Neighborhood Market in Springfield, Missouri wearing body armor and military fatigues and carrying tactical weapons as well as more than one hundred rounds of ammunition, the Springfield Police Department said, which responded within three minutes of being called.
The man was filming himself walking around the store pushing a cart when the store manager pulled the fire alarm to warn customers to escape. The man exited through an emergency exit.
An off-duty firefighter then held the heavily armed man at gunpoint until police arrived.
“His intent was not to cause peace or comfort to anybody that was in the business,” Police Lieutenant Mike Lucas said. “In fact, he’s lucky to be alive still to be honest.”
“Nobody was harmed, thankfully,” Lucas said. “Just a really scary, dangerous situation that thankfully got resolved, and everyone’s going home tonight.”
“All we know is the fact that he walked in here heavily armed with body armor on, in military fatigues and caused a great amount of panic inside the store. So he certainly had the capability the potential to harm people.”
By the way - I think THAT should be prosecutable, though he probably didn't break any current laws. Any reasonable person "knew, or should have known, that this conduct would cause panic..."
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