He carried one woman away from the scene, and was ready to go back in to help others when police stopped him. He believes the shooter did not commit suicide, but was killed by police. And, he believes a policeman died in the shooting, although no death of a policeman was reported.
Such is the report of a person I ran into while traveling home tonight via mass transit. The person I spoke to -- I did not get his name -- was at the Grand 16 theaters, but in a different theater in July, when those in the room heard shots being fired, and fled out of the theater. The man I spoke with didn't flee with the others, but waited for everyone to leave, then poked his head out to see if the coast was clear. He spotted a lady crawling, and went and picked her up and carried her outside on his shoulder.
He said after the initial shots, there came a point where he heard a series of shots -- too many to be being fired by just one person -- and he believes it must have been the police shooting at the shooter. News reports, however, say the shooter, John Russell Houser, shot himself in the mouth.
And, he said he saw four officers enter, and only three come out. Then, he saw someone wheeled out and hurried off in an ambulance. He believes it was an officer.
While I guess he's probably wrong on both counts -- both on whether it was suicide and whether an officer was killed -- I appreciate the man telling his account. He said he had been a security guard, but got out because there was a rule that if you pull your gun, you shoot it, and he did not want to use his gun wrongly.
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