恶性杀人事件被制止: Pearl高中

TFollowerII

1997年10月1日

副校长Joel Myrick（好人）举着他的Colt .45近距离对着那个高中男孩Luke Woodham（坏人）的头。Joel是这么描述当时的场景的：

Joel说： 你为什么要杀我学校的小孩子？
Luke说：因为没有人喜欢我，一切都没有希望。
Joel说：你叫啥？
Luke说：你知道我的，Myrick先生，还记得吗？我上周给你送比萨饼的时候给你打了折扣。

就在那一天早些时候，Luke割了他母亲的喉咙，然后抓起一把.30-30 lever action deer rifle。他在自己的风衣的口袋里装满了弹药，向密西西比州的Perl高中前进。

Luke知道警察会不久到来，所以他一刻不停，不浪费时间和口舌。只是开枪和上子弹。直到他听到警笛声，然后跑到他的车。他的计划，当局随后得知，是把车开到附近的明珠初中和射杀更多的孩子之前在警察到来之前。但Joel挫败了这一计划。

Joel听到枪声的那一刻，他跑到他的卡车。他打开门，从盒中取出他的枪，装上子弹，去寻找杀手。Joel解释，“我一直保持着枪的卡车，以防万一这样的事情发生过。”

Joel看到凶手逃离校园，在挡风玻璃钱用枪指着Luke。当看到有枪指着他的头的时候，Luke的车撞了。Joel走近杀手和他相对。 “这就是杀死我学校的孩子的怪物，但当我把枪指着他的头，他就又变成孩子了，”Joel说。

总共死了3个（包括Luke的妈妈），伤了7个。

现实不是模拟器，可以让我们计算出来如果没有Joel的武装制止，Luke还会多杀多少个。但是common sense告诉我，应该还有很多无辜的生命会被Luke伤害。

Joel在当助理校长以前是U.S. Army Reserve commander。虽然是有后备役背景，但是并不是说只有有军事、警察背景的人才能够制止犯罪。就像鲁班不曾毕业于木工大学一样。

Vice Principal Joel Myrick held his Colt .45 point blank to the high school boy's head. Last week, he told me what it was like. "I said 'why are you shooting my kids?' He said it was because nobody liked him and everything seemed hopeless," Myrick said. "Then I asked him his name. He said 'you know me, Mr. Myrick. Remember? I gave you a discount on your pizza delivery last week."

The shooter was Luke Woodham. On that day in 1997, Woodham slit his mother's throat then grabbed a .30-30 lever action deer rifle. He packed the pockets of his trench coat with ammo and headed off to Pearl High School, in Pearl, Miss.

The moment Myrick heard shots, he ran to his truck. He unlocked the door, removed his gun from its case, removed a round of bullets from another case, loaded the gun and went looking for the killer. "I've always kept a gun in the truck just in case something like this ever happened," said Myrick, who has since become Principal of Corinth High School, Corinth, Miss.

Woodham knew cops would arrive before too long, so he was all business, no play. No talk of Jesus, just shooting and reloading, shooting and reloading. He shot until he heard sirens, and then ran to his car. His plan, authorities subsequently learned, was to drive to nearby Pearl Junior High School and shoot more kids before police could show up.

But Myrick foiled that plan. He saw the killer fleeing the campus and positioned himself to point a gun at the windshield. Woodham, seeing the gun pointed at his head, crashed the car. Myrick approached the killer and confronted him. "Here was this monster killing kids in my school, and the minute I put a gun to his head he was a kid again," Myrick said.

HOUSCOUS

97年的时候校园车里能放枪？这副校长违法在先吧。

TFollowerII

HOUSCOUS 发表于 2014-2-14 17:00
97年的时候校园车里能放枪？这副校长违法在先吧。

说对了。违法在先。

Myrick clearly saved lives. He also clearly violated the Federal Gun Free School Zones Act (18 US Code sect. 922(q)(1)(A)), which specifies, "It shall be unlawful for any individual knowingly to possess a firearm... at a place that the individual knows... is a school zone."
Of course, the Federal law doesn't seem to have held much sway over criminals. Perhaps Luke Woodham, the murderer in Mississippi, and Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the Columbine murderers, simply forgot to review the relevant Federal statutes before they went on their killing sprees.

HOUSCOUS

TFollowerII 发表于 2014-2-14 17:03
说对了。违法在先。

Myrick clearly saved lives. He also clearly violated the Federal Gun Free Scho ...

最后这个副校长怎么判的？

TFollowerII

HOUSCOUS 发表于 2014-2-14 17:04
最后这个副校长怎么判的？

好像没有公诉人敢审判这么一个英雄。英文报道提了一句，他从此就当校长了。但是我刚查了，现在的校长不是他。

另外，其实他可以更早地进入校区制止Luke。He could have confronted Woodham much sooner, but for the fact that Federal law prohibits anyone but a police officer from having a gun in or near a school.

happyfrog

sad , but could be worse if he did not have his pistol in his truck.

brucewayne

HOUSCOUS 发表于 2014-2-14 20:04
最后这个副校长怎么判的？

又换大凶器了

kk58

邪恶附身时，天使也变成魔鬼。