Mass-shootings where someone present with a gun stopped the shooter

 In response to the two mass-shooting events this past weekend, one in Australia, where most guns are already banned, and one in Rhode Island, where they have some of the strictest gun laws on the books, I've decided to go through some old notes to find a list of mass-shootings where someone present with a gun stopped the shooter.  

Pearl High School – Pearl, MS - October 1, 1997 

.30-30 rifle 

During the rampage assistant principal Joel Myrick was running out of the school and towards his truck to retrieve his Colt .45 automatic. 
Myrick confronted the shooter as he was attempting to flee, possibly to the nearby elementary school 

 

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Parker Middle School dance shooting - Edinboro, Pennsylvania, at Nick's Place (a nearby banquet hall) - April 24, 1998 

.25 caliber pistol 

The shooting ended when the owner of Nick's Place, James Strand, intervened and confronted Wurst with his shotgun, ordering him to drop his weapon and later holding him at bay for eleven minutes. 

 

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Appalachian School of Law,  Grundy, Virginia - January 16, 2002 

former student, 43-year-old Nigerian immigrant 

.380 ACP semi-automatic handgun.  

When the shooter left the building where he shot his victims, he was approached by two students with personal firearms and one unarmed student. 

 

According to Tracy Bridges, at the first sound of gunfire, he and fellow student Mikael Gross, unbeknownst to each other, ran to their vehicles to retrieve their personally-owned firearms. 

Mikael Gross, a police officer retrieved a 9 mm pistol and body armor. 

Bridges, a county sheriff's deputy retrieved his .357 Magnum revolver.  

Bridges and Gross approached the shooter from different angles, with Bridges yelling at the shooter to drop his gun. 

The shooter then dropped his firearm and was subdued by several other unarmed students, including Ted Besen, Daniel Boyd, and Todd Ross. 

 

According to Ted Besen, before the shooter saw Bridges and Gross with their weapons, the shooter set down his gun and raised his arms like he was mocking people. 

Besen, a Marine veteran and former police officer, engaged in a physical confrontation with the shooter, and knocked him to the ground.  

Bridges and Gross then arrived with their guns once the shooter was tackled. 

Additional witnesses at the scene stated they did not see Bridges or Gross with their guns at the time Besen started subduing the shooter. 

Once the shooter was securely held down, Gross went back to his vehicle and retrieved handcuffs to detain the shooter until police could arrive. 

 

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Courthouse, Tyler, TX - February 24, 2005 

Semi-auto rifle 

a man shot his ex-wife and son outside the courthouse 

then engaged police and court officers in a shootout 

the law enforcement officers were only armed with pistols, and the shooter was able to wound several and force them to retreat. 

A local resident, Mark Alan Wilson, was in his downtown loft when he heard the shooting begin. He looked out his window and saw the shooter at the courthouse steps engaged in a shootout with law enforcement.  

Wilson, who held a Texas concealed handgun permit, immediately armed himself with his Colt .45 caliber pistol, and left his residence to intervene in the gun battle. 

Because the shooter was already engaged in a heated gun battle with sheriff's deputies and Tyler police officers, he did not see Wilson approach from behind. 

As Wilson approached the shooter from behind, the shooter was taking aim at his son whom he had already shot in the leg and wounded.  

Acting to defend the life of the shooter's son, Wilson fired a round from approximately 50 feet, which struck the shooter in the back, causing him to stumble and taking his attention away from his son.  

A witness who saw Wilson's round strike the shooter reported seeing "white puffs of powder-like substance" come from the shooter's clothing.  

This is believed to be the first time the shooter was hit or injured during his attack on the courthouse. 

Wilson was forced to take cover behind the shooter's truck in a prone position and exchanged fire with the shooter.  

As the shooter began to approach Wilson's position, he stood up from behind cover and fired again, hitting the shooter.  

Unknown to Wilson, the shooter was wearing a bulletproof vest, rendering Wilson's shots ineffective.  

The shooter eventually fired a shot that struck Wilson, who faltered and fell from the view of witnesses, face down behind the shooter's truck.  

The shooter then walked up to Wilson and fired three more shots at him, killing him. 

Arroyo attempted to flee and a pursuit ensued 

The shooter was fatally shot by police after a high-speed pursuit. 

 

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Youth With A Mission training center - Arvada, Colorado - December 9, 2007  

9mm handgun 

New Life Church - Colorado Springs, Colorado 

Semi-auto rifle 

shot by Jeanne Assam, a member of the church's safety team 

Assam shot the shooter 10 times, striking him in both the femoral and carotid arteries using her Beretta 92 FS .9mm handgun 

The shooter then fatally shot himself in the head with the same handgun he used in the earlier YWAM shooting. 

 

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Peach House RV park – Early, TX - July 29, 2012 

9mm pistol  

Two killed 

Scoped lever action rifle 

Fired at responding police sergeant  

Vic Stacy had grabbed a .357 stainless Colt Python that he used to shoot the shooter 

Shooter fired at Stacy, and then turned back to responding officer 

Stacy fired again 

The distance of the shots Stacy made was later measured at 56 yards 

Second officer responds to Stacy's position with long gun 
Stacy laid down his revolver, and was put in cuffs until the police sorted out who was who 

Stacy began shooting at age seven or eight, with a .22. He has also participated in club-level competitions. 

He had no police or military experience. 

 

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Luigi's restaurant - Fayetteville, North Carolina - August 6, 1993 

Two shotguns and a rifle 

Shot and wounded by a police officer who was not on duty 

 

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Walmart shooting – Tumwater, WA - June 17, 2018 

Stolen handgun 

Convicted felon who was not allowed to have a firearm 

Tried to carjack a family at a gas station in Olympia 

Crashing his car into another vehicle in Tumwater. 

Tried to carjack at least two more vehicles, 

Shot through the front windshield of 16-year-old Danner Barton's car, hitting the teen in the thumb 

Shot his way into a locked glass ammunition case 

Tried to force his way into two more cars including vehicle driven by Ricky Fievez and shot the man twice when he resisted, 

Shot and killed by armed bystanders 

 

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West Freeway Church of Christ shooting - White Settlement, Texas - December 29, 2019 

shotgun  

Upon the perpetrator drawing his shotgun, churchgoers Richard White and Jack Wilson both drew their pistols. However, as they were drawing their pistols, the perpetrator opened fire, killing White with a single shot before immediately turning and firing his second shot at Anton Wallace. 

 

Gunman was fatally shot by 71-year-old Wilson, head of the church's volunteer armed security department, ending the attack within six seconds. 

Wilson indicated that five or six other members of the church assembly also drew their own weapons in response to the shooting. 
The idiot Bloomberg stupidly responded by saying only the police should be armed and allowed to shoot active shooters.  But of course, he has armed security. 

 

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Congressional Baseball Game for Charity practice session - Eugene Simpson Stadium Park, Alexandria, Virginia - June 14, 2017 

9mm handgun and semi-auto rifle 

Shooter was a left-wing political activist 

deputies had been called to shooter's house about half a dozen times in the past 20 years 

was accused of beating his foster daughter and charged with domestic battery, but the case was dismissed when the alleged victim decided not to testify. Had he been convicted, he would have been unable to legally purchase firearms. 

a neighbor called police to complain about his firing a rifle at trees in their residential neighborhood. The officers who responded checked his gun permit, then advised him not to shoot in the area but did not conduct an arrest 

A ten-minute shootout took place between shooter and officers from the Capitol and Alexandria Police before officers shot shooter, who died from his wounds later that day 

 

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Trolley Square Mall - Salt Lake City, Utah - February 12, 2007 

12-gauge pump-action shotgun, a 38-caliber handgun 

From Bosnia and Herzegovina 

Encountered off-duty police officer Kenneth Hammond of the Ogden City Police Department. 

Drawing his weapon, Hammond identified himself as a police officer, and shooter fired twice at him with his shotgun, missing. 

Sergeant Andrew Oblad of the Salt Lake City Police Department entered Trolley Square through the south entrance and encountered Kenneth Hammond.  

Shooter fired at both officers, and Hammond fired back in return. 

 

An active shooter contact team composed of Salt Lake City PD SWAT team members Sergeant Joshua Scharman, Detective Dustin Marshall, Detective Brett Olsen, and Officer Gordon Worsencroft eventually arrived and confronted the shooter from behind.  

Scharman and Olsen shot him a total of eight times in the back with their Heckler & Koch MP5 service weapons, and Marshall also shot him five times with his AR-15 service rifle.  

When the shooter turned around and aimed his shotgun towards the team, Scharman and Olsen fired again and killed him.  

 

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Curtis Culwell Center attack - Garland, Texas on May 3, 2015 

three rifles, three handguns 

A failed terrorist attack on an exhibit featuring cartoon images of Muhammad  

Shortly after opening fire, both attackers were shot by an off-duty Garland police officer and killed by SWAT 

 

One shooter was the subject of an FBI investigation starting in 2006, 

In 2010 he was arrested by federal agents as the result of a four-year investigation 

 

The FBI had been monitoring the two attackers for years, and an undercover agent was right behind them when the first shots were fired. 

The injured security guard filed a lawsuit against the FBI in October 2017, claiming the FBI was partially responsible for his injuries.cf 

 

Third conspirator was investigated by the FBI in 2012 for having a terrorism training document on his computer and developing a plot to attack the Super Bowl XLIX game in Glendale, Arizona with pipe bombs. He had also reportedly accessed a list released by ISIL, which contained the names and addresses of U.S. service members. 

He was sentenced to 30 years in prison in February 2017. He is serving his sentence at FCI Beaumont Medium, and is scheduled for release on November 20, 2041. 

 

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Naval Air Station Corpus Christi - Nueces County, Texas - May 21, 2020, 

 

a motorist crashed through a northern perimeter gate at NAS Corpus Christi, activating vehicle barriers that stopped the vehicle. The driver then got out and opened fire before being shot and killed.  

The shooter was later identified as a 20-year-old Corpus Christi resident born in Syria, who had expressed support for ISIS and Al-Qaeda