3 dead, including suspect, in shooting near New Orleans airport: Sheriff

[mountaineer]

3 dead, including suspect, in shooting near New Orleans airport: Sheriff
Authorities said the shooter killed two victims at a gun store and range before armed bystanders intervened
By Michael Ruiz | Fox News

  Armed bystanders stopped a mass shooting in Louisiana that left three people dead, including the suspect, and two injured down the road from the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport Saturday afternoon, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.

"Arriving deputies located several victims suffering from gunshot wounds," the sheriff said in a statement. "Three individuals were pronounced dead on the scene, and two more were transported to a local hospital for treatment. The two transported victims are in stable condition."

It happened near a gun shop and shooting range on the 6700 block of Airline Drive in Metairie, La., just west of New Orleans, and armed bystanders helped subdue the gunman, according to authorities.

"At this time, it appears a suspect shot two victims inside the location, then was engaged and shot outside the location by multiple other individuals," the sheriff's statement continued. "The suspect is one of the deceased on scene." ...

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... Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto said a person he described as the initial shooter fired inside the Gun Store Outlet in the suburb of Metairie, striking two people who were later pronounced dead.

He said several other individuals then engaged the original suspect, both inside and outside of the building and that one other person also died.  ...

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[PeteS in CA]

Hot Tip: Don’t Try To Shoot Up A Shooting Range

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2021/02/21/hot-tip-dont-try-shoot-shooting-range/

... yesterday was just another Saturday at the Jefferson Gun Outlet and Shooting Range in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. In the front of the building, customers were browsing the available firearms. Around back, people were engaged in training and target practice in the facility’s shooting range. Then somebody walked into the store and opened fire, killing two people. What happened next should have been easily predictable. The initial shooter who initiated the attack did not fare well, to say the least.
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When I read the first reports where the Sheriff’s deputies hadn’t provided details, three possibilities immediately come to mind to explain this. One was that the guy who set all of this off had a beef with someone on the range and decided to put a terminal end to it. Another was that he was a random, wannabe mass shooter. The last was that this was a really twisted version of suicide by cop, using civilians that he knew would be armed and ready ... .

As it turns out, however, it sounds as if none of those were the actual explanation. A follow-up report from a local news station indicates that the shooter had walked into the store with an unholstered, loaded handgun. A clerk in the store reportedly admonished him, saying he needed to wait until he reached the shooting range to load his firearm. That sparked an argument that quickly escalated to gunplay.

I don’t know whether this guy was drunk, stupid or both, but this incident really falls off the end of the bell curve when it comes to shootings. ...

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Original news story posted here: http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,429373.0.html

[PeteS in CA]

I see the threads have been merged. I looked to see if it had already been posted, but did not recognize the topic of the original thread being about the same story. Fox's headline kind of misses a big point, the unwisdom of doing a shooting amidst significant numbers of armed people.

[mountaineer]

Fox's headline kind of misses a big point, the unwisdom of doing a shooting amidst significant numbers of armed people.

That's the truth! Whenever I'm in a gun shop, I'm well aware that all employees and most (if not all) customers are armed.  This perp must have been on a suicide mission.