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It’s not every day that you hear the police give a civilian a warm “thank you” for entering a lethal shootout, but that’s exactly what happened in Early, Texas on Sunday. But before we get into the heroic civilian shooter, let’s back up a bit.

It all began, innocently enough, “as a squabble over dogs.” David Michael House, 58, and Iris Valentina Calaci, 53, were both residents at the Peach House RV Park in central Texas. They were also dog owners, and their pooches allegedly had a nasty habit of relieving themselves on the lawn of neighbor Charles Ronald Conner, 58.

According to eyewitnesses, Conner approached House about his dog, and an argument broke out. Rather than dealing with the confrontation like a normal human being, Conner allegedly went back to his RV, got his gun, returned to House, and lethally shot him.

The gun shots prompted Calaci to run screaming from her trailer home, but she didn’t get far. Conner chased her down, shot her once and then fired another shot into her, execution style.Amazingly, Conner’s shooting spree didn’t end there. He also shot and killed the two dogs that, in his confused mind, started the mess.

Fatally shooting your neighbors over an issue of dog doo might seem absurdly over-the-top to normal people like you and us, but it might have appeared perfectly sensible to Conner. Conner’s family explained that he had “mental problems.” Police later found a notebook in Conner’s trailer with nearly incomprehensible “ramblings.”

Conner might’ve been able to get a lenient sentence in court due to his troubled mental state, but that day will never come – there was to be one more shooting on that tragic day, this time in the name of defense.

Sgt. Steven Means of the Early Police Department came rolling onto the scene, but he had barely gotten out of his car before Conner began opening fire on the officer. Means took cover behind his police car and returned fire with an AR-15, but Conner maintained cover behind a tree. Eyewitnesses report that this positioning gave Conner the upper hand over the out-gunned police officer.

Means and Conner weren’t the only two people with their attention riveted on the gun fight. Vic Stacy, another resident of the RV park, saw the gun fight break out as he was watching TV in his mobile home and thought to himself, “I’m going to see what’s going to happen here and if I need to I’ll, you know, get in on it.”

Stacy, who had a seen Conner around his trailer park and described him as “off the wall”, watched the gun fight for a few moments and concluded, “I think (Conner) is gonna take (the officer) out if I don’t help him out.”

So, that’s when Stacy decided to act. Conner may have had excellent cover against the Officer Means, but Stacy was in a flanking position that gave him the perfect vantage point. Stacy recalled, “I had a side view of that man the whole time standing there, and I thought, I’m fixin’ to put one in him, if I can.”

Stacy raised his gun, fired, and landed one hell of a shot – by his estimate “a good 165 yards” – with a pistol (we do not know the make or caliber at this time). Stacy wasn’t even sure if he could make the shot at that distance: “I hope this magnum bullet’ll hold up, you know, this distance. And sure enough it did and I hit him in the thigh.”

At that point, Conner returned fire against Stacy with his AR-15. He missed his shot, luckily, but that gave dead-eye Stacy another opportunity to pull the trigger. Stacy “hit him again and put three more in him … The patrolman got two shots in him with that AR-15. And it seems like he’s all over with, then.”

Conner died on the scene, but if it wasn’t for the aid of Vic Stacy, the body count might have been a lot higher.
More police arrived on scene an promptly threw Stacy in cuffs, but after Officer Means cleared up what had happened they released Stacy. Brown County Sheriff Bobby Grubbs later said, “The citizen that fired these shots did a tremendous job out there. Had he not had a gun and the presence of mind to do this, we don’t know what the outcome would’ve been.”

It is currently unclear as to whether it was Stacy’s shots or Officer Mean’s shots that delivered the killing blow. Either way, the police are not planning to press charges against Stacy. If anything, they should give him a medal.

Police and RV park residents alike have been calling Stacy a hero, but he’s rejected the label. He said that he’s just an “average workin’ person” who was just “trying to help an officer out.”

video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g1n8cmwh...r_embedded

source:
http://deadlinelive.info/2012/08/07/arme...-a-pistol/

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If they had no guns this would not have happened, those people would be alive and the Dogs would be Happily shitting all over his lawn unrestrained.

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Holy crap, 165yds with a pistol? Jeez, best I've ever done is hit paper at 120'.

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Its Hot Here  Wrote:

Holy crap, 165yds with a pistol? Jeez, best I've ever done is hit paper at 120'.

He's a Texan Boy, Deal With It.

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five stars and pin request

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LoP Guest  Wrote:

Its Hot Here  Wrote:

Holy crap, 165yds with a pistol? Jeez, best I've ever done is hit paper at 120'.

He's a Texan Boy, Deal With It.

Hey right on...I've really never tired to reach out that distance with any of my pistols...now a long gun, no problemo.

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LoP Guest  Wrote:

Its Hot Here  Wrote:

Holy crap, 165yds with a pistol? Jeez, best I've ever done is hit paper at 120'.

He's a Texan Boy, Deal With It.

So am I, and yes, we do shoot very well!!

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Its Hot Here  Wrote:

Holy crap, 165yds with a pistol? Jeez, best I've ever done is hit paper at 120'.

Really? Haven't even tried and adjusted further? Then again I am a .45 type. Those are all 230 grain extremely hollow. Why even bother with less? (I'm NOT bragging, just saying, fix the range out as far as possible, just for fun at least, at times...could be handy one day when the crime is semi-over, aside from the "death-rattle" and "he" is really out there, cops/MEs understand that stuff.)

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Astrochik  Wrote:

five stars and pin request

Agreed. Pin this. (How do I request a pin here? I would request a "pin" if I knew how...I'm sorry OP)

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LoP Guest  Wrote:

If they had no guns this would not have happened, those people would be alive and the Dogs would be Happily shitting all over his lawn unrestrained.

No guns, as in fantasy world... I can make a gun from parts from home depot so can dumb ass gang members that currently make homemade guns. But im guessing you didnt know about that.

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LoP Guest  Wrote:

If they had no guns this would not have happened, those people would be alive and the Dogs would be Happily shitting all over his lawn unrestrained.

If they had gun laws this would have been a huge massacre, dipshit! Criinals and crazies wont surrender their guns, just law abiding people will surrender theirs. You are NOT required to register your guns everywhere, so it is an honor system of gun surrender. Do criminals and crazies support the homor system? NO?

Please take a second to use the space between your ears before spouting anti american ideas, like "gun control"....Do you really want to be ass f*cked, watching your chold suck a dick, and your wifwe beinng passed around the living room by a bunch of armed killers in your home because you voted for gun laws, and golly gee whiz, you just didnt think there were people out there like that?

I am sorry to be so graphic, but look around the world, that shit happens everyday and will happen in your home if you support outlawing guns.....Criminals dont care about laws...

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LoP Guest  Wrote:

If they had no guns this would not have happened, those people would be alive and the Dogs would be Happily shitting all over his lawn unrestrained.

They would have been an epic knife/baseball bat murders by the insane f*cker who killed people because their dogs shit in his yard.

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Its Hot Here  Wrote:

Holy crap, 165yds with a pistol? Jeez, best I've ever done is hit paper at 120'.

no shit, i shot idpa, there is no competition with pistols at that distance.
i am half that mans age and i wouldn't have taken that shot with a pistol

i would have tried to creep up on the suspect
i wonder if he meant 165 feet? that would be pretty good in itself

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Wondering if it was a Contender? In either case...Damn good shootin, Texan.

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LoP Guest  Wrote:

If they had no guns this would not have happened, those people would be alive and the Dogs would be Happily shitting all over his lawn unrestrained.

Then the lawful citizen would have had to just watch. Because if "they had no guns" the criminal still would. Sure, we can outlaw guns. But how do we eliminate them all? Got a giant machine we can use from orbit that'll erase all guns and ammo from existence? No? Keep dreaming then.