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Tanuki

(14,918 posts)
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 11:24 AM Jun 2022

Armed Uvalde funeral home worker tried to confront shooter, was stopped by law enforcement

https://www.yahoo.com/news/uvalde-funeral-attendant-encountered-gunman-061158528.html

"Cody Briseno, a funeral attendant who works across the street from the site of the state's deadliest school shooting, was one of the first people to encounter the gunman on May 24.

Briseno had rushed to help after the shooter's pickup crashed outside Robb Elementary School but fled after seeing the 18-year-old with an "evil look" holding a rifle.

In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Briseno, who has helped bury several of the victims, including a relative, described the encounter and how he was prepared to charge the shooter after his wife brought him his gun but was told by arriving officers to back away.

"Hey, what are you doing," an officer asked as Briseno began to march toward the school, he said. He recalls responding, "I'm going to go in and try to stop them."
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"I told him that he’s already inside the school,” Briseno said. He said the officer told him to stay back and shut up."...(more)

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Armed Uvalde funeral home worker tried to confront shooter, was stopped by law enforcement (Original Post) Tanuki Jun 2022 OP
If he was carrying a weapon and wearing civilian clothes he could have been shot. lpbk2713 Jun 2022 #1
He's lucky he didn't get shot, it has happened in the past Walleye Jun 2022 #2

lpbk2713

(42,757 posts)
1. If he was carrying a weapon and wearing civilian clothes he could have been shot.
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 12:21 PM
Jun 2022


So even though the LEOs on the scene were doing nothing
productive it was right to turn him back for his own good.

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