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Stories of Self-Defense 03/17/2004 11:02 PM Healy Volunteer/Nonprofit Second Law Information for Clients Groups Amendment Offices Home Gun Laws Corporations Leadership Quotes Page CLE Seminar Firearms Biographical Risk Management Tyler YR's Info Case Law Areas of 2nd Amd. Campaign Law Management Guide Practice Quotes Smith Self-Defense County Using Legal Counsel YRNF Region IV Stories Courts Shooting Web CLE Toastmasters Straight About Seminar Guns Terms of 2nd Amd. Forms Use Brief Friends of Links Frank Williams Quotes NRA Emerson v. U.S. E-Mail Sean Healy http://www.healylaw.com/self-def.htm Page 1 of 165 Stories of Self-Defense 03/17/2004 11:02 PM Stories of Self-Defense: Well Over 1,000 Documented Accounts all from The Armed Citizen unless otherwise noted Search for state, date, name, or other information using <CTRL> F School Shootings 1990 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 School Shootings 1. [Also appears as No. 811 below) Alarmed at the sound of gunfire in the halls of his Pearl, Mississippi, high school, Assistant Principal Joel Myrick ran to his car to retrieve a pistol. The shooter was an armed student who marched through the school firing on his fellow classmates and teachers. The assailant's efforts to escape the scene ground to a halt when another student used his own vehicle to force the suspect's white car into the grass, where it spun to a stop. Myrick used the delay to catch up to the armed student and hold him for police. Pearl schools Superintendent Bill Dodson said of Myrick, "We think he's a hero for keeping more lives from being lost. The young man with the gun still had rounds in the rifle and could have injured other people." (The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, MS, 10/2/97; not reported by ABC, CBS, or CNN, mentioned two times by NBC) 2. In April 1998, a 14-year-old middle school student in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, walked into a school dance with a .25-caliber handgun and opened fire, killing a science teacher and wounding several students. He turned to flee, but the owner of the hall, James Strand, armed with a shotgun, chased him into a field. When the boy stopped to reload, Strand captured him and held him until police arrived 11 minutes later. (not from Armed Citizen) 3. In May 1998, 15-year-old Kip Kinkel walked into the crowded cafeteria of Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, and opened up on students with a .22-caliber semiautomatic rifle. He shot wildly at first, then started singling students out for death. At one point Kinkel walked up to a student who was lying on the floor, placed the rifle to her head, and attempted to fire three times, but nothing happened. Wrestler Jacob Ryker, shot through the lung in the first wave of bullets, charged the 15 feet separating him from Kinkel, tackled him, and disarmed him. Had Ryker not done so, the toll could have been much higher than the roughly two dozen injuries and two deaths the shooting caused. Ryker and his family were hunters and target shooters. From the sounds the http://www.healylaw.com/self-def.htm Page 2 of 165 Stories of Self-Defense 03/17/2004 11:02 PM gun made, Ryker knew Kinkel was out of ammunition. Ryker's parents credited his familiarity with firearms with helping to stop the shooting. (not from Armed Citizen) January, 1990 4. Bill Hazen was in his cabin near Bakersfield, Calif., shortly after midnight when an intruder forced a sliding glass door. The Los Angeles minister was armed and ordered the man outside. During an ensuing scuffle the attacker ran, but an accomplice appeared in a pickup truck and tried to run down Hazen. The minister fired at the advancing truck and when the vehicle stopped, its occupant got out and said, "I counted six shots; you're out and now I'm going to get you." Hazen fired his large-capacity semi-automatic once more, dropping his adversary. Both men were taken into custody by sheriff's deputies. (The Californian, Bakersfield, Calif. 10/25/89) 5. Wilson Brown, 84, and his wife were watching television in their Pittsburgh, Pa., home when a man climbed through their apartment window. The intruder wanted money, and Brown gave him $2--all he had. But the robber wasn't satisfied, and he put a knife to the wife's throat and demanded more. Brown went to the bedroom, returned with a revolver and fired on his wife's assailant. He let go of her and jumped out the window. (The Press, Pittsburgh, Pa. 9/22/89) 6. New York, N.Y., businessman Richard Rand was walking from his car to his house when a man ran up behind him and tried to grab his money bag. The robber hit Rand over the head and threw ammonia in his face, but Rand managed to draw his licensed revolver and fatally shoot his attacker. (The Post, New York, N.Y. 9/28/89) 7. Paul Green was on his way to buy cigarettes at a Hot Springs, Ark., gas station when he spotted the flash from a large knife in the attendant's cubicle. Armed with a handgun, Green investigated and found a knife-wielding thug stealing money. He told the man to freeze, but the robber tried to stab him. Green fired once, killing the masked would-be thief--a parolee with a long record of violent crime. The female station attendant was not injured. (The Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, Ark. 10/28/89) 8. A 24-year-old Daytona Beach, Fla., woman heard noises in the back bedroom of her home, and when she investigated she was attacked by a man who tried to pull off her clothes. The pair struggled, but the woman broke free and ran to a closet, where she quickly loaded her revolver. She fired from inside the closet; the would-be rapist fled. (The News-Journal, Daytona Beach, Fla. I 1⁄2/89) 9. When Stanley Cook was parking his car outside his East Point, Ga., apartment, a man put a gun to his head and demanded money. Cook pushed the pistol aside and pulled a revolver from a bag in the car. He fired on his assailant, killing him. Although Cook was ordered to appear in court on involuntary manslaughter charges, police expected the charges to be dropped. (The Journal and Constitution, Atlanta, Ga. 9/12/89) 10. "Give me all you got, buddy," a knife-wielding robber ordered Anderson, Ind., resident Link Oliver as he walked down the street. The 61-year-old man responded by drawing a handgun. Oliver tried to lead his adversary to a nearby store, but the man dropped the knife and ran away. (The HeraldlBulletin, Anderson,lnd. 10/10/89) http://www.healylaw.com/self-def.htm Page 3 of 165 Stories of Self-Defense 03/17/2004 11:02 PM 11. Bruce Paquette and a friend were hunting in the vicinity of Merrimack, N.H., when they came across a group of vandals ransacking a car. The hunters ordered the foursome to stop and held them at gunpoint until police arrived to take them into custody. (The Monitor, Concord, N.H. 10/16/ 89) 12. A pregnant Weverton, Md., woman was washing the dishes when she heard a doorknob rattling. She saw a ski-masked man trying to break in, and she raced to a bedroom to grab her husband's revolver. While she was on the phone to police, the prowler broke out a kitchen window to gain entry. The 23-year-old woman fired a shot into the floor; the man fled. (The Morning Herald, Hagerstown, Md. 11/2/89) 13. When the glass shattered in her kitchen door and a man's arm reached in, Theresa Knox of Charlotte, N.C., ran for the bedroom to get her handgun. The resident told him to stop, but the intruder opened the door. Knox fired as he came toward her but missed. The man began smashing windows and then advanced toward the woman again; she then shot and killed him. (The Observer, Charlotte, N.C. 10/27/89) 14. An armed man wearing a bandanna around his face walked into an Austin, Tex., pharmacy and told the pharmacist he didn't want any trouble. Dick Phillips told him there wouldn't be any if he put the gun down. The would-be robber refused, and Phillips pulled a handgun from under the counter and fatally shot the man. Police suspected the slain man in two other pharmacy hold-ups. (The American-Statesman, Austin, Tex . 10/17/89) 15. Joseph Mills' wife awoke when she heard noises outside their Ashland, Va., home. She alerted her husband, and they watched a man who'd been standing on their porch go to a neighbor's home. Mills grabbed a handgun and went outside while his wife called police. The resident caught the prowler jimmying the neighbor's door, and he held the man for police. "I wish we had more citizens like that," the police chief said. (The News Leader, Richmond, Va. 8/22/89) February, 1990 16. Eighteen-year-old Vern Benadom was home sick when he heard someone enter his family's Ridgecrest, Calif., home. He went to his parents' bedroom, got a shotgun, loaded it and waited in a closet. When one of two intruders entered the room and began grabbing guns, Benadom stepped from the closet and ordered the prowler to put up his hands.

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