{"id":3076,"date":"2015-02-24T21:06:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T01:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2015-02-24T21:06:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T01:06:33","slug":"death-of-an-armed-citizen-and-hero-10th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/death-of-an-armed-citizen-and-hero-10th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"DEATH OF AN ARMED CITIZEN AND HERO: 10TH ANNIVERSARY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the tenth anniversary of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tylerpaper.com\/TP-News%20Local\/214462\/survivors-remember-deadly-downtown-tyler-gun-battle#.VO0dK_nF8pj\" target=\"_blank\">mass shooting<\/a> in which a courageous armed citizen ended the carnage.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WilsonTylerTX.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3077\" src=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WilsonTylerTX-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"WilsonTylerTX\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WilsonTylerTX-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WilsonTylerTX-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WilsonTylerTX.jpg 1347w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tragically, the bullets from Mark Wilson\u2019s subcompact Colt .45 auto were stopped on the killer\u2019s vest, and he was able to shoot and murder Wilson.\u00a0 But after that he fled, and he inflicted no further gunshot wounds. In the pursuit that followed, the murderer was shot and killed by Lt. Rusty Jacks of Tyler PD.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been to Tyler a couple of times since then, once for a grand jury and once for a civil trial arising out of another fatal shooting, both in the courthouse where the atrocity we\u2019re discussing went down. You can still see the pockmarks from the gunman\u2019s bullets on the walls of the building. I\u2019ve debriefed some of the lawmen and lawyers who were in the courthouse when that nightmare took place. I\u2019m proud to have been able to shake the hand of Rusty Jacks.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019ve stood in front of the monument in the Tyler town square to a courageous armed citizen who used his pistol to stop a mass murder, and save the lives of God knows how many people in his community.<\/p>\n<p>RIP, Mark Wilson. You were a hero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the tenth anniversary of a mass shooting in which a courageous armed citizen ended the carnage.\u00a0 Tragically, the bullets from Mark Wilson\u2019s subcompact Colt .45 auto were stopped on the killer\u2019s vest, and he was able to shoot and murder Wilson.\u00a0 But after that he fled, and he inflicted no further gunshot wounds. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}