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hadn't run away and stayed because I had thought about the consequences
or anything like that. I wasn't thinking anything through. Please
understand, there was no intention. I was just staying there because I
didn't think about running. It never occurred to me that he might shoot
me. Until he started shooting in my direction and I realized I was
unarmed. Then the female cop comes around the corner. He shoots her.
(according to the news accounts she got a round into him. I believe it,
I just didn't see it. he didn't go down.) She goes down. He starts
reloading. He's fiddling with his mags. Weirdly he hasn't dropped the
one that was in his weapon. He's holding the fresh one and the old one
(you do that on the range when time is not of the essence but in combat
you would just let the old mag go). I see the male cop around the left
corner of the building. (I'm about 15-20 meters from the shooter.) I
yell at the cop, "He's reloading, he's reloading. Shoot him! Shoot
him!) You have to understand, everything was quiet at this point. The
cop appears to hear me and comes around the corner and shoots the
shooter. He goes down. The cop kicks his weapon further away. I sprint
up to the downed female cop. Another captain (I think he was with me
behind the cars) comes up as well. She's bleeding profusely out of her
thigh. We take our belts off and tourniquet her just like we've been
trained (I hope we did it right...we didn't have any CLS (combat
lifesaver) bags with their awesome tourniquets on us, so we worked with
what we had).
Meanwhile, in the most bizarre moment of the day, a photographer was
standing over us taking pictures. I suppose I'll be seeing those
tomorrow. Then a soldier came up and identified himself as a medic. I
then realized her weapon was lying there unsecured (and on "fire"). I
stood over it and when I saw a cop yelled for him to come over and
secure her weapon (I would have done so but I was worried someone would
mistake me for a bad guy). I then went over to the shooter. He was
unconscious. A Lt Colonel was there and had secured his primary weapon
for the time being. He also had a revolver. I couldn't believe he was
one of ours. I didn't want to believe it. Then I saw his name and rank
and realized this wasn't just some specialist with mental issues. At
this point there was a guy there from CID and I asked him if he knew he
was the shooter and had him secured. He said he did. I then went over
the slaughter house. the medical SRP building. No human should ever
have to see what that looked like. and I won't tell you. Just believe
me. Please. there was nothing to be done there. g
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