Chris Mintz, a former Army vet who served in the 2nd. Infantry Division at Join Base McChord (Tacoma) from 2004-2007, undoubtedly saved a number of lives, say witnesses.
On Tuesday afternoon, a man in Dale County, Alabama, near Midland City, got on a school bus, demanded a child be let off with him, then shot and killed the bus driver when he refused. The shooter, identified as Jimmy Lee Dykes, then took the boy from the bus and is currently holed up with him in an underground bunker nearby.
Officials say a white supremacist who went on a shooting rampage inside a Sikh temple before being killed by law enforcement was an Army veteran who likely mistook the Sikhs for Muslims.
The suspect in a deadly shooting mid-morning Wednesday in Seattle is still at large after killing three people and wounding two in what officers say was related to domestic violence.
Pasco police are scouring the video footage from the 7-11 surveillance cameras at 14th and Sylvester after a lone gunman held up the store late Sunday night.