Via Sean Sorrentino of the Gunblog Varietycast fame.

NBC-2.com WBBH News for Fort Myers, Cape Coral & Naples, Florida

I think most everybody in the Gun Culture community heard or read about this incident:

NBC2 obtained the witness videos from the good Samaritan fatal shooting of Edward Strother, the man who attacked a Lee County deputy near Corkscrew Road.

…The terror can be heard in the voice of those recording while they watched Strother on top of Deputy Bardes. Strother pinned Bardes to the ground after the deputy chased the suspect several miles on I-75. Strother reportedly beat the deputy in the middle of the exit ramp on I-75.
Drivers pulled over to see it unfold, but the man in the blue shirt walked into the scene to stop the attack.
Strother was shot and killed by a civilian, Ashad Russell, a witness to the whole incident with a concealed weapons permit and gun. All three shots hit Strother. Within moments, Russell dropped his weapon and slowly walked away to wait for deputies.

Source: Video shows good Samaritan shooting LCSO deputy’s attacker – NBC-2.com WBBH News for Fort Myers, Cape Coral & Naples, Florida

Here is one thing in the article that Sean mentioned and left me speechless:

Interesting note – there were no 911 calls made from the scene.

If anything to call 911 when we see dangerous or threatening stuff  was drilled in the collective psyche of our country, or so I thought.  I understand that smart phones can either take video or make calls, but you figure at lest one of the idiots present would have thought, “Hey, maybe we should call some other cops to come to the area or paramedics or something. Let me call 911.” But nobody did.

Out of all the people present, only the armed Good Samaritan and the driver of the truck came forward to help.  And even though I can “understand” keeping your distance while actions were happening, after the shooting and seeing two bodies lying around, nobody else even attempted to check on them. Of course, the reason is a generous mixture of “I don’t want to be involved” with not having the basic training to respond and treat injuries.

And I won’t even comment o the audio track.

And the saddest lesson you can take from this incident is that if something happens to you, the likelihood of having a very lonesome but very well documented death in a public place is very high with our 21st century voyeur culture of Youtube Voyeurism.