Micah Xavier Johnson
Wanted to Kill White People and Police Officers.
Killed 5 Police Officers and Shoot 9 others
On July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson, Ambushed and fired upon a group of police officers in Dallas, Texas, killing five officers and injuring nine others. Two civilians were also wounded. Johnson was an Army Reserve Afghan War veteran who was angry over police shootings of black men and stated that he wanted to Kill White People, especially white police officers. The shooting happened at the end of a protest against the police killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, which had occurred in the preceding days.
Following the shooting, Johnson fled inside a building on the campus of El Centro College. Police followed him there, and a standoff ensued. In the early hours of July 8, police killed Johnson with a bomb attached to a remote control bomb disposal robot. It was the first time U.S. law enforcement used a robot to kill a suspect.[8]
The shooting was the deadliest incident for U.S. law enforcement since the September 11, 2001 attacks, surpassing two related March 2009 shootings in Oakland, California, and a November 2009 ambush shooting in Lakewood, Washington, and a 2009 shooting of Pittsburgh police officers.
Texas Grandma Thwarts Mass Shooting Plot After Man Buys AK-47
After her grandson told her he bought an AK-47 rifle and planned to "shoot up" a hotel, she convinced him to go to the hospital.
By Beth Dalbey, Patch Staff
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HIS GRANDMOTHER SAVED MANY LIVES
LUBBOCK, TX — A Texas grandmother helped thwart a mass shooting when she learned her grandson bought an AK-47 rifle and was plotting to "shoot up" a local hotel and then commit suicide by police, officials said.
Sensing 19-year-old William Patrick Williams, of Lubbock, was both homicidal and suicidal, the unidentified grandmother convinced him to allow her to take him to a hospital, Erin Nealy Cox, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, said in a news release.
"This was a tragedy averted," Nealy Cox said in the release. "I want to praise the defendant's grandmother, who saved lives by interrupting this plot, as well as the Lubbock police officers and federal agents who investigated his unlawful acquisition of a deadly weapon."
Others should follow the grandmother's example and intervene if they "suspect a friend or loved one is planning violence against themselves or others," Nealy Cox said, adding, "do not hesitate to seek help immediately by calling law enforcement."
MASS SHOOTERS COME IN ALL COLORS & CREEDS
MASS SHOOTERS COME IN ALL COLORS & CREEDS
