An armed civilian reportedly put an end to the situation by shooting and killing the gunman.
Greenwood’s Police Chief, Jim Ison, told reporters that police started to get calls about an active adult male shooter around 6 p.m. after the shooter had allegedly entered Greenwood Park Mall with a rifle and several magazines of ammunition. While a potential motive for the shooting has not yet been revealed, Chief Ison did speak on the armed civilian who helped prevent an even more unfathomable tragedy.
“It appears that a good Samaritan that was armed observed the shooting in progress and shot the shooter,” Chief Jim Ison said.
🚨BREAKING NEWS (9:30pm update)… 🚔“THE REAL HERO” according police is a 22-year-old man from Bartholomew Co. who was “legally” carrying a concealed firearm. This is the “good samaritan” who took out the Greenwood Park Mall mass shooter this evening.🚑🚒#BreakingNews #Greenwood https://t.co/69ctzWpspe pic.twitter.com/6n5IJPw9IJ
— Steve Norris (@SteveNorrisTV) July 18, 2022
More details will likely start pouring in over the coming hours, but according to CNN, this situation should be recognized for the extremely rare occurrence in which an armed bystander actually attacked an active shooter. In fact, a data analysis by the New York Times revealed that of 433 active shooter cases in the United States between 2000 and 2021, only 22 of them were ended by an armed bystander, and in 10 of those cases, the “good Samaritan” just so happened to be an off-duty police officer.
Stay tuned for more details on the Greenwood Park Mall shooting.
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