Austin officer reflects on taking out rampaging gunman with one shot

[oljames3]

Austin officer reflects on taking out rampaging gunman with one shot
Posted by CLEAT November 30, 2015

http://www.cleat.org/2015/11/austin-off ... -one-shot/

[Scott Farkus]

I was thinking about this recently as I drove past APD headquarters and saw some workers (finally) repairing the damage. I never saw the follow up ballistics report that confirmed it was the officer's bullet that killed this shooter. While I am thrilled that we had a good outcome in this situation, I always wondered if it was in fact the officer's "miracle" shot that killed the shooter, or a closer CHL holder who did the deed and then slipped into the shadows. Apparently it was in fact the miracle shot, made even moreso because the bullet ricocheted off the assailant's car first.

Again, while I'm thrilled that this situation ended well, from what I understand of the distance of shot and the area and the angle at which the officer took it, I gotta say it raised questions in my mind. He was essentially shooting toward I-35, in the dark, while holding two horses, from 100+ yards away, two blocks from the city's biggest party area, at a time of night when thousands of tired and inebriated people are heading home. I get he was stopping a threat, and that's fine, but this could have gone horribly, horribly wrong very easily.

Anyway, all's well that ends well I guess.

[VMI77]

A lot of garbage reporting. No surprise there. Full auto AK....firing 30 round bursts....seems unlikely. In one account it says he fired 100 rounds over a ten minute period then two paragraphs later in the same account it says he went through four 30 rounds mags in "seconds."

I don't know what you can believe from the articles other than the officer fired one shot from about 100 yards and it killed the gunman. However, according to the Austin Birdcage Liner, it was a lucky shot that bounced off a vehicle and otherwise would have missed the target by several feet. Still, good for the officer, and all's well that ends well.