Off-Duty Cop Stops Massacre Attempt In Massachusetts Mall

By Bob Owens

The alternate headline for this one could read, “‘good guy with gun’ stops mass murder attempt in another ‘weapon-free’ zone.”

A 28-year-old man was shot and killed by an off-duty cop after the suspect went on a stabbing rampage at a Tauton mall that was the end of his trail of terror.

A Massachusetts man stabbed four people, two fatally, at a home and a shopping mall south of Boston before he was shot and killed by an off-duty law enforcement officer, authorities said late Tuesday.

Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III told reporters that A___ D___*, 28, of Taunton, crashed a car outside a home in the city, walked inside and stabbed an 80-year-old woman and another woman. The 80-year-old was taken to a hospital, where she later died. The other woman was being treated for life-threatening injuries.

Neighbors told WFXT the women who were attacked in the home were mother and daughter.

“My son was here and heard the loud noise,” a neighbord told the station. “An accident had happened, someone was coming out of the house. [He] realized that person had a knife.”

D___ then drove to the Silver City Galleria mall, where he crashed a car …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms