A Good Samaritan [Stephen Willeford, 55] intervened, shooting Kelley as he left the church. Kelley then got into his car and fled, as the hero bystander and another man chased him in another car. Police say Kelley called his father (Michael Kelley, a computer programmer and accountant) as he was driving away from the church, telling him he was shot and didn't think he was going to make it.Willeford is a plumber with no military background, but he managed to shoot Kelley through a gap in his body armor. He's being regarded as a hero for stopping Kelley's rampage. Here's an interview with Langendorff on ABC:
The two men who pursued Kelley say he lost control of his car and crashed into a ditch. By the time police showed up on the scene, he was dead. The official cause of death is pending an autopsy, but officials believe Kelley may have committed suicide through a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
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Johnnie Langendorff says he was driving to Sutherland Springs to pick up his girlfriend when Willeford ran over and jumped in his truck. Langendorff said: 'He jumped in my truck and said, "He just shot up the church, we need to go get him." And I said "Let's go." The two tailed Kelley going 95 mph way from the church, with Lagendorff on the phone the whole time updating officers about their location. As they approached a sharp curve in the road, near the 307 and 539, in Guadalupe County, he said Kelley appeared to lose control and his car swerved off the road.
'It's like he just gave up. He just kind of went off in the ditch, hit a hay bale from what I could see and then he just never moved after that. He didn't get out. He didn't try anything. Nothing. When he hit the ditch the gentleman that was with me got out, rested his rifle on my hood and kept it aimed at him - telling him to 'Get out, get out'. There was no movement there was none that. They guy didn't put up a fight or anything like that.
'Once police showed up they moved me and the gentleman back and then everybody showed up and they took action,' Lagendorff said.
Officials now say that Kelley committed suicide while fleeing in the car, which caused him to lose control of the vehicle. They found him dead inside, along with multiple weapons and possible explosives.
Many preferred to speak anonymously, like the Londoner who told this story: "I started to wear the hijab when I was 17 and there have been different incidences [sic] of varying degrees. From constantly being 'banged into' on a crowded tube train to when I was working in a clothing store in central London. The white male builders apparently had a vote and decided I was the best looking member of staff - a colleague told me about it. It made me feel cheap and I guess it was because they would often look at me in the way that only men with one thing on their mind can. The clothes I was wearing didn't matter as they all seemed to undress me in their minds."Another one:
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The Muslim Women's Network UK runs a helpline for Muslim women. Shaista Gohir, the chair, told me: "We receive calls on the helpline from Muslim women who disclose sexual assault and rape. They have been fully dressed. Some have been wearing the headscarf, jilbab (full robe) and even the face veil. The offenders have included family friends, family members, and also respected religious leaders in the community.
The myth that there's a correlation between the hijab and a low incidence of sexual harassment and violence against women actually systematically victimizes them. Men are doing women a disservice in that they are placing blame on women who don't cover themselves, as well as insinuating that a woman who is attacked while wearing a headscarf somehow did something to deserve it. As with all victim-blaming, this prevents women from speaking up about sexual assault. Many mainstream conservative Muslim clerics and pseudo-social scientists-like Zakir Naik, in this video, which is a must-see for anyone wanting to learn about this issue-openly imply or proclaim that women who don't wear the hijab are calling for sexual harassment and sexual violence. They go so far as correlating a woman's right to wear what she wants in the West with a high incidence of sexualized violence against women there.
They conveniently ignore all of the reports on how sexualized violence is underreported in many conservative Islamic societies because of its taboo nature and the stigma associated with it; they ignore the fact that sexualized violence leads to the honor killings of many of the women victims each year.
Perverts are perverts. They will sexually harass and commit sexual violence against women who wear the hijab or a miniskirt because they are perverts-not because women have exercised their right to wear what they want.
Comment: This is no doubt only one of many things that desperately needs to be corrected about police training in the US: