Good Guy With A Gun Stops Very Bad Guy...

[Lord Jim]

Bad as this was it could have been a lot worse; this guy would undoubtedly have continued until he was brought down:

Fired man beheads co-worker at Oklahoma food plant, police say

A 30-year-old man attacked two co-workers at a food processing company in Oklahoma on Thursday afternoon, killing and beheading one of them, before he was shot and wounded by a company executive, the police said Friday.

The suspect, identified as Alton Nolen, who had a criminal history, had just been fired from Vaughan Foods, and “he recently started trying to convert some of his co-workers to the Muslim religion,” said Jeremy Lewis, a spokesman for the police department in Moore, Okla. It was not immediately clear if that proselytizing was a reason for his termination.

After being fired, “he drove to the front of the business, running into a vehicle, exited his vehicle, entered the business, where he encountered the first victim, Colleen Hufford, and began assaulting her with a knife,” Lewis said. “He did kill Colleen and did sever her head.”

After killing Hufford, 54, he attacked Traci Johnson, 43, with the same knife, the police said.

“Mark Vaughan, who is the chief operating officer of Vaughan Foods and is also an Oklahoma County reserve deputy, confronted Nolen and at that time shot him and stopped the threat and the assault,” Lewis said.

Nolen, 30, was convicted in 2011 of multiple drug charges, and assault and battery on a police officer, and escape from detention, and was released from prison in March, 2013, according to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. He had earlier arrests on drug and assault charges, as well.

After being shot, Nolen was taken to Oklahoma University Medical Center and is expected to survive.[another tragic aspect of this story]He has not been charged. The Moore Police called in the FBI to assist in the investigation.

Law enforcement officials said he was a recent convert to Islam. A Facebook page that appeared to be his indicated that he was calling himself Jah’Keem Yisrael, and is filled with criticism of American culture, and dire warnings about coming judgment for those who do not follow that religion. “This is the last days,” he wrote in his most recent post, on Tuesday.

The police learned of the attack while it was still under way, from a 911 call from within the Vaughan Foods building. “We have someone attacking someone in the building,” a man, remaining remarkably clear and calm, told the 911 operator, a recording of the call reveals. “They’re in the front office of the building. We can hear a lot of screaming.” Between telling someone else to close and lock a door, the man said: “We know that he’s loose. He has stabbed someone.” Then gunshots can be heard in the background.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/wor ... e20812852/

[oldr_n_wsr]

Not a lone wolf terrorsit, it's just work place violence.

[BoSoxGal]

If beheadings start to become a common tool of nutjobs here at home, I am definitely moving to Canadia!

[Lord Jim]

I think that all the publicity about the terrorist beheadings probably played a role in his "weapon of choice" and some twisted reading of Islam based on his "conversion" (he apparently converted less than a year ago during a stint in The Joint) in his delusional mind might have played into his rationale, (since he's still alive and reportedly cooperating with police, presumably we'll know what was going on in his head eventually) but basically I agree with oldr...

This was a garden variety rage/revenge killing carried out by a mentally ill person because he was fired. He was going to do this regardless. If it hadn't been for the publicity about the beheading he probably would have used a different weapon, and if he hadn't converted to Islam he may have concocted a different rationale, but once he was fired, this attack was going to happen.

[MajGenl.Meade]

I thought the good guy with the gun shot once too few times... at least. I shouldn't think that. But I did.