“Because we want to respect the ongoing criminal investigation by the Greenwood Police Department and take time to honor the three innocent lives lost, we won’t be making any substantive comments on Sunday’s events until after the authorities’ investigation is closed,” attorney Guy A.
An armed bystander who shot and killed an attacker in 2021 in Arvada, Colorado, for example, was himself shot and killed by the police who mistook him for the gunman, the Times reported.įew other details have emerged about Dicken, and an attorney for the young man has asked the public to respect the privacy of Dicken and his family. Having armed people at the scene who are not law enforcement members can create confusion and carry dire risks, according to a data analysis published by The New York Times. In 10 of those, the “good guy” was a security guard or an off-duty police officer, ALERRT data showed. Of those 434 active shooter cases, an armed bystander shot the attacker in 22 of the incidents. Active shooter attacks were defined as those in which one or more shooters killed or attempted to kill multiple unrelated people in a populated place. There were at least 434 active shooter attacks in the US from 2000 to 2021, according to ALERRT data. Making Dicken’s heroism perhaps even more remarkable is the fact cases of an armed bystander attacking an active shooter are rare, according to data from the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training at Texas State University. According to WTHR, Dicken’s grandfather taught him how to shoot. “He’s a superhero,” Alison Dick said in a live Facebook post, whose 12-year-old daughter was wounded.Īs far as investigators know, Dicken “has no police training and no military training,” Ison said. As he moved in on the gunman, Dicken motioned for people to leave behind him, the chief said. Police identify victims, gunman and armed bystander in Indiana mall shootingĪs Sapirman began shooting from a restroom area into the mall’s food court, Dicken returned fire “from quite a distance with a handgun – was very proficient in that, very tactically sound,” Ison said.
(Kelly Wilkinson/The Indianapolis Star via AP) Kelly Wilkinson/AP
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