Interview with Texas hero plumber. I teared up watching this

yeah it's long but it's intense

This man is a fricking American hero

eta for those who don't have time to watch this video


Summary that I got from the interview
- he's sitting in a chair relaxing when his daughter hears and recognizes gunshots which he dismisses initially as something tapping on the glass
- gets up, moves to front of house and recognizes the sound as actual gun fire. immediately goes to the safe to retrieve his weapon and ammo
- daughter apparently gets out and drives around the church and comes back and says there is a shooter.
- he calls his wife/other daughter who are 5 miles down the road working on a house & says 'stay put'
- gives his other daughter busy work to keep her inside the house and out of the line of fire (told her to load a few mags i think)
- walks outside barefoot (still loading his mag i think) and approaches shooter's vehicle because he says every time he hears a shot 'thats a bullet finding its target'
- sees kevlar-clad shooter moving towards a running truck, shooter pulls out a pistol and begins firing at him.
- he returns fire, notices weakness where kevlar velcro attach on the sides and hits a bullseye
- shooter takes off in vehicle
- he checks his weapon, has ONLY TWO BULLETS LEFT a chambered round & one left in the mag, flags down truck
- pursues killer, stays on phone with police until the guy bleeds out & runs off the road
- gets out, trains rifle on driver's side window and waits for cops
- cops arrive and say over bullhorn 'put down your weapon'. he puts it down and the cop says 'no, not you'
- retrieves rifle and keeps it trained on truck (along with police) until enough units arrive and cop shields him with vehicle until he is out of harm's way



i have to say i probably wouldn't do about 90% of those same things correctly. this guy didn't make a mistake.

to add to the sad story, he was growing a santa beard because he is getting ready to donate his time to bring toys & food to the less fortunate in his community.

remind me what the TRAINED SECURITY GUARD IN VEGAS DID AGAIN?

HE'S A PLUMBER