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Gun carrying man ends stabbing spree at Salt Lake grocery store

Posted on by LibWhacker

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - 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."

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. 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."

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."

Police say right now they have no idea what caused the suspect to go on the dangerous rampage. (We will update as soon as we learn new information.)

So far, police have not released the names of the suspect, the victims or the man who pulled the gun.



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To: LibWhacker

My people? Perhaps the suspect’s name will give us a possible meaning.



by 2 posted onby P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)

To: LibWhacker

This story is all over the national news ........ oh, wait, it isn’t.



To: LibWhacker

Bad timing? Waited too long between “Drop it or” and “I’ll shoot”.



by 4 posted onby showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)

To: P-Marlowe

Agreed...if you have a cause people should get what it is.

Ok, I did laugh though, he actually bought the knife first.



by 5 posted onby svcw (If you are dead when your heart stops, why aren't you alive when it starts.)

To: LibWhacker

I wonder if this guy is a muslim. Yelling “you killed my people” makes me wonder if he was upset about Tsarnaev. Anytime they don’t mention the suspects name makes me suspicious.



To: P-Marlowe

I don’t think his name is J. Whittington Dodsworth IV. ;^)



by 7 posted onby elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")

To: LibWhacker

yelling you killed my people .. So far, police have not released the names of the suspect .. anyone else beginning to sense a pattern here ? < spit >



by 8 posted onby tomkat (a nation of spoiled children being 'led' by the very parents who excused their petulance)

To: LibWhacker

PING



by 9 posted onby SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)

To: LibWhacker

“Gun carrying man ends stabbing spree at Salt Lake grocery store” Really needs a hyphen: Gun-carrying . . . Thought a gun was carrying a man . . . I knew guns were dangerous, but not a much as a gun that was carrying a man. (I’m a stickler)



To: laweeks

Gun carrying man ends stabbing spree at Salt Lake grocery store Why was he on a stabbing spree if he had a gun? Is that like a shopping spree where you get to keep everything you stab?



by 11 posted onby eldoradude (Let's water the tree of liberty with THEIR blood...)

To: laweeks

I think that gun deserves a medal (but it really should stop carrying people around).



by 12 posted onby LibWhacker ("When good men who will fight are all extinct, there is no more civilization." - S. Locklin)

To: P-Marlowe

SJS Sudden Jihad Syndrome Nothing to see here...move along...



To: laweeks

Or the man with the gun was doing the stabbing. Poor writing all around.



by 14 posted onby Kenny Bunk (The Obama Molecule: Teflon binds with Melanin = No Criminal Charges Stick)

To: LibWhacker

A good thing the store did not advertise a “Gun Free Zone”. Another thing from this story is that what we all thought of the suspect is crawling all over our country. Any time, anything will just make them snap.



To: LibWhacker; All

The story is a year old. http://www.abc4.com/content/news/top_stories/story/conceal-and-carry-stabbing-salt-lake-city-smiths/NDNrL1gxeE2rsRhrWCM9dQ.cspx



by 16 posted onby marktwain (The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)

To: mardi59

born in Vietnam SALT LAKE CITY  Police and gun advocates are lauding a concealed weapons permit holder who subdued a man who had stabbed two peopleapparently at randomin the parking lot of a downtown grocery store.

Police said the suspect, a career criminal named Kiet Than Ly, walked into the Smiths Marketplace at 455 East and 500 South and purchased a knife.

The individual, for reasons that we dont know, went into the Smiths and bought a knife, came outside and attacked at least two people, said Salt Lake City Police Lt. Brian Purvis.



To: LibWhacker

Listening to UK radio, I have noticed people where guns are banned aren’t dying less, they are just being stabbed or burned.



To: LibWhacker

Local report uses network report ABC style book. No identification if offender is one of the protected species.

Won’t use link but did ABC 4 actually lead story with defence of 2nd amendment ? Or did they lead with citizen participation and then on 2nd line mention gun? The medis is so full of it it’s sickening.



by 19 posted onby mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause..Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)

To: LibWhacker

“Police say right now they have no idea what caused the suspect to go on the dangerous rampage. (We will update as soon as we learn new information.)” Do we need a reason? Dude is a whack-job. Nuff said!



by 20 posted onby castowell (I am Andrew Breitbart!)

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