Lake Hefner shooting aka Oklahoma City restaurant shooting. Pictured the suspect who was gunned down by a Good Samaritan.
Lake Hefner shooting: A good Samaritan is hailed a hero during Oklahoma City restaurant shooting which saw a suspect shoot and strike customers before being shot dead by an armed civilian.
An armed citizen has been hailed a Good Samaritan hero after shooting dead a suspected mass shooter at an Oklahoma City restaurant as the man sought to flee after shooting at a woman and her 12 year old daughter.
The suspect who has yet to publicly identified began shooting at random inside Louie’s Bar and Grill just off Lake Hefner about 6.30pm. Local media reported the assailant striking the mother and child as they were walking inside for the woman’s eldest daughter’s 14th birthday celebrations.
The mother was shot in the arm, and the girl was shot in her tailbone, but the bullet traveled to her stomach, KOCO reported.
Captain Bo Matthews told reporters the shooter, a white male who walked in and began randomly shooting, was the only person killed. He described the man’s death as ‘a blessing’.
Told Matthews, ‘It’s a blessing this was stopped [when it was]. Who knew when this guy was going to stop shooting people’.
The shooter had shot at least two people before he was taken down with a handgun – both who are in surgery for their injuries but are expected to survive.
Pictured, Lake Hefner shooting victims, Natalie Will (left0 was grazed on the arm, while her 12-year-old daughter, Niah Giles (right), was struck in the tailbone.
Lake Hefner shooting victims expected to survive.
A report via kfor cited the father/grandfather of the victims, Dennis Will, saying his daughter, Natalie Will, was grazed on the arm. The relative also told of his 12-year-old granddaughter, Niah Giles, being shot near the tailbone and undergoing surgery. Both mother and daughter were expected to survive.
Also injured was an adult male escaping the scene after falling and breaking his arm.
A fourth victim was identified about two hours after the shooting. That individual suffered a minor injury. It is not known if he was shot.
The un-named civilian who killed the suspected mass shooter was widely praised on social media as being a hero, particularly those who oppose limits on second amendment rights, pointing to the civilian’s actions as proof gun control doesn’t work.
‘A “good guy with a gun” prevented a potential mass shooting near Lake Hefner,’ one man wrote.
Then again, perhaps one could also argue limiting gun ownership in the first place would be a step in the right direction limiting much gun violence which remains a pervasive and ongoing daily routine in America.
Following the shooting, Matthews told of police having ‘100 witnesses’ and would be looking through CCTV footage in trying to work out what has happened.
Images taken from a KOCO helicopter showed police and dogs closely inspecting one particular car.
The shooter, who was reportedly wearing ear protection and eye glasses, has not been identified.
At this stage, police believe the shooting was random, and he had no link to the restaurant or anyone inside.
If you didn’t hear, a shooting in an Oklahoma restaurant was just stopped by an armed citizen. Three were injured, but the only one that died was the suspect. You probably won’t hear @davidhogg111 and the gun control lobby tell you about this since it doesn’t fit their narrative.
it’s important to realize after the lake hefner shooting tonight that #gunreform DOES NOT mean keeping the person that stopped the shooter (through concealed carry) from having a gun, it means making it a lot harder for THE SHOOTER to get a gun in the first place!