Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday gave Texas� highest civilian honor to a 71-year-old man who shot and killed an armed attacker at a church in December.
Abbott gave Jack Wilson the Governor�s Medal of Courage during a ceremony in Austin, calling him a hero for stopping the shooter at a church in the Fort Worth-area town of White Settlement.
Wilson, a firearms instructor who trained the West Freeway Church volunteer security team, shot the attacker once in the head after he opened fire with a shotgun in the church�s sanctuary. Wilson�s single shot quickly ended the attack in which two parishioners, 64-year-old Anton �Tony� Wallace and 67-year-old Richard White, were killed.
�When events arise, you�re going to do one of two things. You�re either going to step up and do what�s right or walk away. And I�m not one to walk away,� Wilson said in accepting the medal at the Texas Governor�s Mansion.
Authorities identified the attacker as Keith Thomas Kinnunen, 43 , who had a history of criminal and psychological trouble.
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This story settles the debate whether Yidden should be armed in shuls on Shabbos.
Yes, providing that they are well trained, which is a lot more than a license to carry and occasional range practice.
This man is a firearms instructor and a retired FBI agent, not your common congregant, and he knew exactly how to react on the moment without endangering others.
Little One, you are wrong: Mr Wilson was never an FBI agent or a police officer, he just was at one time an auxiliary volunteer sheriffs resource officer. And why people like you always assume that citizens who carry conceal guns do not have [roper training?