Numerous news articles from Kansas City....showing 50 cal ammo, info, items from Barrett, etc etc..... just what we need with the ongoing AWB discussion in DC right now.....not good!
It was a nightmare come true for first responders on Monday afternoon in Kansas City, Missouri. Firefighters responded to a fully involved house fire about 4pm. While they were pulling hose and getting ready to attack the fire, bullets started hitting the four pieces of apparatus, blowing out tires and punching big holes in the pumpers. Automatic weapons fire was coming through the smoke from across the street. The firefighters took cover but not before a 37-year old paramedic Mary Seymour, a 15-year veteran, took one in the chest and went down.
Police arrived, took heavy fire and returned fire. Officer Michelle Derby, under cover fire from her partner and other officers, ran out and hauled the wounded EMT to safety. Police peppered the area where the shooter was standing by the corner of a house across the street. Shooting stopped when that house exploded. The explosion was so massive that a news helicopter saw debris reach over 1,000 feet up. The debris field was five blocks in diameter and included 50-pound chunks of a gun safe.
The body of the suspect was found inside the exploded house surrounded by .50 caliber shell casings and a .50 rifle. Those slugs are six inches long, half-inch diameter, armor piercing rounds. Four-dozen weapons and twenty pipe bombs were also found in the house. The dead man, Donin Eric Wright, was a suspect in a 1988 arson that killed six Kansas City firefighters. Five other men were convicted of that crime. The FBI investigated Wright following the Oklahoma City terrorist attack because of a tip that he had so many heavy weapons. The FBI investigation ended in 1999 when he was determined not to be a threat. There was another unidentified body found with Wright, maybe his girlfriend. Paramedic Seymour is in stable condition. Two houses burned to the ground. Fire and police vehicles were riddled with .50 caliber rounds, and a neighborhood was terrorized.
It was a nightmare come true for first responders on Monday afternoon in Kansas City, Missouri. Firefighters responded to a fully involved house fire about 4pm. While they were pulling hose and getting ready to attack the fire, bullets started hitting the four pieces of apparatus, blowing out tires and punching big holes in the pumpers. Automatic weapons fire was coming through the smoke from across the street. The firefighters took cover but not before a 37-year old paramedic Mary Seymour, a 15-year veteran, took one in the chest and went down.
Police arrived, took heavy fire and returned fire. Officer Michelle Derby, under cover fire from her partner and other officers, ran out and hauled the wounded EMT to safety. Police peppered the area where the shooter was standing by the corner of a house across the street. Shooting stopped when that house exploded. The explosion was so massive that a news helicopter saw debris reach over 1,000 feet up. The debris field was five blocks in diameter and included 50-pound chunks of a gun safe.
The body of the suspect was found inside the exploded house surrounded by .50 caliber shell casings and a .50 rifle. Those slugs are six inches long, half-inch diameter, armor piercing rounds. Four-dozen weapons and twenty pipe bombs were also found in the house. The dead man, Donin Eric Wright, was a suspect in a 1988 arson that killed six Kansas City firefighters. Five other men were convicted of that crime. The FBI investigated Wright following the Oklahoma City terrorist attack because of a tip that he had so many heavy weapons. The FBI investigation ended in 1999 when he was determined not to be a threat. There was another unidentified body found with Wright, maybe his girlfriend. Paramedic Seymour is in stable condition. Two houses burned to the ground. Fire and police vehicles were riddled with .50 caliber rounds, and a neighborhood was terrorized.
