colorado springs: guy with AR-15 kills 3, cops kill him

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grabbing witness statements

just in case this one is sketch too

http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/Suspect-In-Multiple-Downtown-Springs-Shootings-Shot-Injured-By-Officers-339120272.html

One of those witnesses told our partners at The Gazette he heard two gunshots from his kitchen.

"I looked out my kitchen window and I saw a man in a green jacket firing an AR-15...waited a few seconds, went out of my house, looked to my left and saw a man down the street, probably 50 feet. I started following him and I called the cops," Matt Abshire told The Gazette.

While waiting for CSPD to answer, Abshire kept tailing the suspect.

"Still following him, he's heading left on Platte towards Palmer High School...probably a hundred yards past El Paso Street he stops, turns to his left, fires four shots, shoots two ladies, one in the jaw, one in the chest if I'm not mistaken.

Abshire told The Gazette he rushed to help, but that one of the victims was already dead. Police confirmed Saturday afternoon that both were killed.

Abshire said the officers encountered the gunman a moment later.

"They encountered him at the corner of Platte and Wahsatch, where the suspect opened fire on the officers and the officers returned fire," El Paso County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Jacqueline Kirby told 11 News. Because of a new law requiring outside agencies to investigate law enforcement-involved shootings, EPSO is investigating the Wendy's shooting.

"Me and my son were at the 7-Eleven using the ATM...as soon as I walked outside I heard six gunshots up the street. ... We see the cop cars swarm in. I saw the guy with the gun just walking with the gun in his hand. ... Just calm, standing there with a gun in his hand," witness Alisha Jaynes told 11 News.

"They yelled, 'Put the gun down,' and he turned around, and that's when they shot at him a good 20 times. ... There was a lot of gunfire. He was running across the street right here [points at Wahsatch] and they pretty much shot him down," Nicks said.

"What I saw was he kind of, like, spun around and [police] yelled, 'Drop it,' and he kind of [gestures as though he's holding a gun] went to aim and that's when they shot him down."

Nicks said the suspect was darting between fast-food restaurants on Wahsatch as he tried to escape officers.

"He was running across from Taco Bell through here to the Wendy's, and that's where they shot him."

"[I was] watching a police officer fall on his stomach to the ground, maybe to get cover," Jaynes recalled.

"All of a sudden this guy just was shooting and running down this way and firing at police," another shaken up witness can be heard saying on a video from the scene, sent to 11 News by viewer Aaron Michael. The video was taken after the suspect was shot by officers.

"Some guy was shooting at police, so they shot him." Michael can be heard saying while recording.

"Oh my gosh, he shot at cops?" a woman says off-camera after asking Michael what was happening.

These witness accounts have not been confirmed by police, but Lt. Catherine Buckley with CSPD says there were numerous people who saw the whole thing unfold Saturday morning. Victim advocates have been provided to assist witnesses who are suffering from any kind of emotional trauma. Springs police and El Paso County deputies are working to interview each witness for the investigation.

No officers were injured in the shooting.

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http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/colorado-springs-area/reports-multiple-shootings-in-colorado-springs-suspect-in-custody

Matt Abshire, 21, said he was woken up by the sound of gunshots when he looked out the window and saw a "college-aged kid dead on the road."

Abshire said he followed the suspect west on Platte, who allegedly had multiple weapons including an assault-style rifle. That suspect then shot two other women who died a short time later, an officer with the Colorado Springs Police Department confirms with Denver7.

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FF?

[palani]

150 years from now they will write this story up to make it as interesting as Jesse James hits Northfield Minnesota

http://www.northfieldhistory.org/bank-site/


Meanwhile, local citizens on the street began to arm themselves when a merchant discovered the robbery in progress and shouted, “Get your guns, boys — they’re robbing the bank!”

Upon this discovery, two of the gang members sprang to their saddles and began firing their pistols, yelling for everyone to leave the area or be shot. This forced the remaining robbers to enter the fray.

The first to fall was a Swedish immigrant named Nicholas Gustafson, who did not understand English well and remained on the street. Gustafson was wounded in the head and died several days later.

A Swift Defeat
When it was over after just seven minutes, two of the robbers lay dead on the street with two more badly wounded. The remaining six outlaws fled southwest, triggering the largest manhunt in U.S. history. Frank and Jesse James were not caught after the failed raid, but the Younger brothers were captured and Charlie Pitts was killed two weeks later during a furious gunfight near Madelia, Minnesota.