Good Guy With a Gun? Las Vegas Police Secretive About Shooting at High Rise

[rangerrebew]

Good Guy With a Gun? Las Vegas Police Secretive About Shooting at High Rise
Fred Lucas / @FredLucasWH / June 27, 2023
 

Local media reports say that residents of a Las Vegas condo complex hailed a building employee as a hero for shooting and stopping a gunman Friday before he fired on anyone. Las Vegas police, however, aren't providing details. (Photo of Las Vegas skyline: Rebecca Ang/Getty Images)

Las Vegas police are withholding details about what looks like a classic “good guy with a gun” scenario in which someone carrying a firearm prevents what could have turned into a mass shooting.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department won’t identify anyone involved in an incident Friday in which a helmet-wearing man with what appeared to be a semiautomatic rifle shot out windows at a high-rise condominium before being shot himself.

Local media reports say that residents of the condo complex, Turnberry Towers, hailed a building employee, possibly a security guard or mailroom worker, as a hero for shooting and stopping the gunman before he fired on anyone.

A video circulating on social media does appear to depict a case of defensive gun use to protect others. 

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/27/good-guy-with-a-gun-las-vegas-police-secretive-about-shooting-at-high-rise/

[mountaineer]

Man facing charges after shooting near north end of Las Vegas Strip
Story by Kyle J. Paine • Yesterday 6:41 PM
KLAS via MSN

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — An employee in the Turnberry Towers’ receiving department opened fire on an armed visitor to the gated condominium community Friday, wounding the gunman and sending him to jail, the 8 News Now Investigators have learned.

Prosecutors have charged Andrew Warrender, 32, with attempted murder, two counts of assault with the use of a deadly weapon, and illegally discharging a gun, documents said.

Warrender was in custody at the Clark County Detention Center as of Tuesday without bail. ...

Police said they received a call shortly after 3 p.m. on Friday, about the shooting at the complex, which is in the 300 block of Karen Avenue. When officers arrived, they found two people involved, one who was injured from a gunshot wound. That person is believed to be Warrender.

KLAS needs better writers. At first, I thought it was the building employee who was criminally charged. Apparently not.

More:

https://twitter.com/LasVegasLocally/status/1673841546809180161

[sneakypete]

I HOPE I am wrong,but it  SEEMS  like there might be a plan to charge and convict the guy that shot the original shooter.

I also suspect the big  dollar lawyer defending the employee that shot the attacker MIGHT be pushing that because it makes his client seem less guilty.

[Smokin Joe]

I HOPE I am wrong,but it  SEEMS  like there might be a plan to charge and convict the guy that shot the original shooter.

I also suspect the big  dollar lawyer defending the employee that shot the attacker MIGHT be pushing that because it makes his client seem less guilty.

Maybe, but it's a tough case to make. Anyone who shoots their way through the front doors of a building isn't there to play pattycake.