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Topic: Texas officer who ended ´66
UT sniper rampage dies |
Texas officer who ended ´66
UT sniper rampage dies
Associated Press, by Paul J. Weber
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 12/27/2012 11:28:04 PM
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| AUSTIN, Texas — The Austin police officer who helped stop Charles Whitman´s 1966 sniper rampage from atop the University of Texas tower has died. Houston McCoy fired two blasts from his shotgun to bring down Whitman, who killed 16 people during nearly two hours of terror on the UT campus. Wayne Vincent, president of the Austin Police Association, said McCoy died Thursday in the rural West Texas town of Menard. McCoy was 72 and had been battling a terminal illness for the past year. Whitman wounded dozens of others before McCoy and fellow officer Ramiro Martinez
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
zorba, 12/28/2012 12:18:34 AM (No. 9086918)
Can´t believe it! The AP writing a story about how a good guy´s gun stopped a bad guy.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
JHSMom02, 12/28/2012 2:43:45 AM (No. 9086965)
I remember it well too. I was in high school. I think that was the second time I can remember "live" coverage of an event like that. The first was the events surrounding the Kennedy assassination, both Kennedy´s and Lee Harvey Oswald´s shootings...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Japanorama, 12/28/2012 4:45:47 AM (No. 9086993)
Good man.
Requiescat in pace.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Michaelus, 12/28/2012 6:28:52 AM (No. 9087029)
RIP. This man stopped a killer with a regular old 12 gauge shotgun. The other officers used their .38´s. No SWAT team. No fancy rifles. Just men with guns. The story fails to mention that he was assisted by a civilian who was using a borrowed rifle (Allen Crum).
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Doctor P, 12/28/2012 7:47:56 AM (No. 9087099)
Two other facts - Ramirez later became the first Mexican-American to be a Texas Ranger based on his actions that day.
Yet the best story was that INITIAL response was from faculty members who returned fire with their deer rifles that they kept in THEIR OFFICES.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
pdmccas, 12/28/2012 8:38:56 AM (No. 9087173)
Good man! When he left police work, he became a contract pilot working for the Air Force. He gave me my T-41 check ride when I went through pilot training in 1969. A real life John Wayne kind of Texan.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
GOPJihad, 12/28/2012 9:14:01 AM (No. 9087232)
"Yet the best story was that INITIAL response was from faculty members who returned fire with their deer rifles that they kept in THEIR OFFICES."
>> Exactly! Dozens of lives were saved because civilians used their own rifles - bolt actions and semi-automatic rifles - to shoot back at Whitman, preventing him from continuing to gun people at will and forcing him to keep his head down.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
HPmatt, 12/28/2012 9:55:56 AM (No. 9087310)
Unless UT has patched them the bullet holes are still on the top of the Tower. One of our professors in the 1980s received his ´tenure´ that day when he got shot as a grad student.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LadyVet, 12/28/2012 10:23:26 AM (No. 9087364)
Student´s also returned fire, having retrieved hunting rifles from their autos and, I think, dorm rooms.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
RayLRiv, 12/28/2012 10:42:51 AM (No. 9087408)
Sad to read about his death. RIP. Interestingly enough, my wife, son and I were in San Antonio this past October celebrating our wedding anniversary. Just caddy-corner from the Children´s Museum in downtown SA you´ll find the Texas Rangers Museum, where you can see and read some of the details of the Tower shooting and the Texas heroes who stopped it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ok state mom, 12/28/2012 12:05:57 PM (No. 9087558)
His passing resulted in a review of the details of the story. I remember the day it occurred very well. My late brother and sister in law had finished their graduate studies a few years earlier. My mother was beside herself that her beloved step-son and his wife could have been in harm´s way had he been there. Tragedy occurred but there was heroism or more tragedy would have occurred. Seems I remember a TV movie?
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