Clerk shoots robber/baby snatcher

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44961029/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/#.Tp8Rzpwu5UM

"As he fled the store, he tried to grab the baby, but couldn't get her loose from the stroller straps. When he began carrying it out, Easterly, as she had learned in a training course, shot the man once in his knee."

I could only imagine the panic that would set in seeing your child snatched by a BG, certainly speaks to having training to fall back on in a high stress situation. I am very curious to see how this all plays out and what additional information is released with time.
 
I was thinking the same thing, but who knows if it was actually the knee or higher up. Either way an amazing shot under stress.
 
What kind of class taught her to shoot someone in the knee!? :eek:

I mean, situationally dependent, but they cover that in a course? "If someone steals yer baby, here's what you do..."
 
As he fled the store, he tried to grab the baby, but couldn't get her loose from the stroller straps. When he began carrying it out, Easterly, as she had learned in a training course, shot the man once in his knee.
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http://www2.tbo.com/news/breaking-n...rk-kills-would-be-robber-who-snatc-ar-273038/

If he was carrying the baby anywhere near his chest, the leg shot would probably have been the safest one (for the baby) she could have taken. Perhaps her training course emphasized taking the safest shot to stop the perpetrator. I imagine, if he was pushing the stroller out the door in a normal fashion, she would have aimed higher but that's just an assumption.
 
What kind of class taught her to shoot someone in the knee!?
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They teach that in the "So you want to own a convenience store" class.

Nice shot placement by the mom. I suspect that Don H is right, and that she'd taken the safest shot that she saw available in order to stop him from leaving the store with her baby.
 
There's also the possibility that in her adrenaline rush, she just happened to hit him in the knee. Pistols shoot low if you jerk the trigger.
 
There are major arteries that go through the knee, hit one right, and the bg will bleed out quickly, major junction in lower leg, veins, arteries, blood vessels, and even if he survives, he wont run from a crime scene again when some idiot liberal judge lets him out on bail. :D
 
Our buddy we call shakey shot a perp in the leg. He told us he was shooting for his shoulder.
He was shaking so bad, he put the pistol against the door jam and let fly.
The perp left, later arrested and jailed.:D
 
I feel bad for the mom. Not every one is hard wired to deal with shooting someone. And it is a heavy thing to take a life. I am glad that she was able to protect herself and save her baby. I hope she recovers and is able to get back into the swing of things.

However, I think I would have been so ****** I would have shot him again getting my kid back. I can tolerate a lot, but don't mess with my kids. Money and or objects can be replaced, that is what insurance is for. But my family is off-limits.
 
I still don't understand what he died from, unless she totally tore out all the blood vessels going to the lower leg and he bled to death, but that's one hell of a shot - more like a shotgun wound than a handgun bullet.

It doesn't say what she shot him with.
 
Could have been a hit to the femoral artery.

Could have been a hit to the bottom end of the femur, which shot bone splinters through a bunch of blood vessels, possibly including the femoral artery.

Could have been an air bubble got into a ruptured vein, and caused fatal problems downstream.

Any number of things can happen when a foreign object is propelled into the body. Bear in mind, the gunshot itself is considered lethal force, regardless of where on the body the shot was aimed. There's good reason for that.
 
The story I read stated that he tried to wheel the stroller out the door and she put him down. A knee shot would have meant that the round went past the baby's head if it was still in the stroller. If he did pick the stroller up and she did shoot him in the knee then she must have blown out a femoral artery and he bled out.
 
am interested in knowing if she shot to wound or hit him in knee by accident

yeah leg shots can be bad. remember that washington redskins player a few years back(sean taylor)? A legwound turned fatal for a young man in great shape:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,313041,00.html

story doesn't reveal as much as I remember because it focuses on his fame+mourning a little more...I couldn't find the scientific article
 
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