Young ignored the deputies’ commands and opened fire on them instead, the Bellingham Herald reported.
One deputy was shot in the head and fell to the ground.
The second deputy put himself between Young and the wounded deputy and returned fire, the Bellingham Herald reported.
Young opened fire on the second deputy and shot him, too.
Police said that was when good Samaritans armed with their own weapons stepped forward and fired multiple shots in the direction of Young to provide cover for and protect the wounded deputies, the Bellingham Herald reported.
The good Samaritans told KING that they were military veterans and they weren’t going to sit still and watch law enforcement officers be murdered so they took their children inside their homes and came back out with their own guns.
Other neighbors jumped in to assist the first good Samaritan and they were able to pull the wounded deputies into a garage and out of the line of fire.
https://policetribune.com/armed-good-samaritans-provided-cover-fire-rescue-wounded-deputies/
This did not make the national news. It contradicts too many points of The Narrative: from defund the Police to Armed Civilians are felonies waiting to happen.
Good for the neighbors and hope the asshole gets it in court.
Hat Tip Harv7Footer
According to LIBTURD gun grabbers and their accomplices in the media as well as Fudds & Butters; all gun owners are just one click away from being a violent murderer based on the type of firearm they own. Stories like this get buried because they simply don’t fit the agenda narrative of total civilian disarmament. It’s all lies of omission.
It all started because the neighbor was burning trash and filled Young’s house with smoke.
That does NOT excuse the gun fire at the neighbor or taking shots at the cops, but there is more to the story.
Joel should have been receiving mental health treatments and is an alcoholic, but the state of Washington rates down the list at about 49 or 50 out of ALL of the states as far as the mental health system is concerned.
His father was a good friend of our family and a retired Border Patrol officer. He tried for years before he died to get help for his son.
BTW, one of the officers happens to be the brother in law of a high school classmate of mine.
Don’t forget, as this was going on, the Washington state senate voted to neuter all magazine capacities there to 10 rounds. It will most likely pass the house as well. The guys up in Bellingham would have had to limit themselves because of that idiocy. Heck, as nasty as they are in washinistan, those guys would get charged for having over 10 rounds and get a longer sentence than the origional perp who started it!!! Those that have them can keep them, but it’s not looking good for even children to inherit them when the original owner dies. I guess they can just put them in the coffin.
I predict widespread ignore…