HankT
State Researcher
imported post
This kind of case is one of the main reasons I carry a gun and am prepared to defend myself. The odds are tiny, but it is possible to meet up with a goof like this.
There's no reasoning with a fellow like this. For me, if presented with this homicidal maniac, Plan A would be flee. If not possible, Plan B would be to stop the threat.
It's a dman shame that guys like Speight have guns. It would be far better to take guns away from murderers like he is than deal with the human wreckage.
Christopher Speight, 39, is being sought in connection with the fatal shootings of eight people in Virginia (AP)
Massacre gunman gives in to police
January 20, 2010
(UKPA) – 1 hour ago
A gunman wanted for murdering eight people in a house then firing at a police helicopter has surrendered after a huge manhunt.
The drama began on Tuesday when a man was spotted barely alive along the side of a narrow country road in Virginia.
He died on the way to the hospital.
Police answering the emergency call heard more gunshots, and seven other men and women were found dead at a nearby home.
They surrounded a stretch woods overnight and as teams tried to flush out the gunman, he fired at a police helicopter and hit a fuel tank, forcing it to land.
On Wednesday morning 39-year-old Christopher Speight approached officers at the scene of the shootings and turned himself in.
The search had paralysed the rural area near Appomattox, best known as the place where Confederate General Robert E Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S Grant in 1865 to end the US Civil War.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jgVMO7X4voBZLjEnU4xcCnuCAK5A
This kind of case is one of the main reasons I carry a gun and am prepared to defend myself. The odds are tiny, but it is possible to meet up with a goof like this.
There's no reasoning with a fellow like this. For me, if presented with this homicidal maniac, Plan A would be flee. If not possible, Plan B would be to stop the threat.
It's a dman shame that guys like Speight have guns. It would be far better to take guns away from murderers like he is than deal with the human wreckage.
Christopher Speight, 39, is being sought in connection with the fatal shootings of eight people in Virginia (AP)
Massacre gunman gives in to police
January 20, 2010
(UKPA) – 1 hour ago
A gunman wanted for murdering eight people in a house then firing at a police helicopter has surrendered after a huge manhunt.
The drama began on Tuesday when a man was spotted barely alive along the side of a narrow country road in Virginia.
He died on the way to the hospital.
Police answering the emergency call heard more gunshots, and seven other men and women were found dead at a nearby home.
They surrounded a stretch woods overnight and as teams tried to flush out the gunman, he fired at a police helicopter and hit a fuel tank, forcing it to land.
On Wednesday morning 39-year-old Christopher Speight approached officers at the scene of the shootings and turned himself in.
The search had paralysed the rural area near Appomattox, best known as the place where Confederate General Robert E Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S Grant in 1865 to end the US Civil War.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jgVMO7X4voBZLjEnU4xcCnuCAK5A