Another Potential Mass Shooting Is Stopped By An Armed Bystander

By Brandon Curtis

LENEXA, KANSAS — A man walked into a Costco store on Sunday and brandished a firearm while yelling, and people began to panic.

The chaos was quickly stopped, however, because an off-duty police officer just happened to be at the right place at the right time.

As soon as the officer noticed the firearm and imminent danger, he opened fire, killing the suspect.

Local media reports on the incident;

Police are still investigating exactly what the armed man said and did when he entered the store. They did not say what type of firearm he had.

“All I know right now is he brandished the firearm,” [Lenexa Police Capt. Wade] Borchers said. “Thankfully, there was an off-duty officer inside the store. And nobody got hurt.

“I don’t know what the subject’s intent was but before anything really bad could happen, he was stopped.”

No one else was injured during the incident.

As things were developing, employees were somehow alerted that a police officer was inside the store, and hoped that he would be able to stop this person with unknown intentions.

Witnesses described how the armed man entered the store, how shoppers fled the area or crouched in hiding, and how the sound of gunshots ended …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation