Mall Hero Identified

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Man killed in jewelry store heist described as a family man and protector
FOX 29 News
by FOX San Antonio
January 23rd 2017

SAN ANTONIO - The Good Samaritan killed in a jewelry store heist on Sunday afternoon has been identified by the Bexar County Medical Examiner as Jonathan Murphy, 42.

Murphy never served in the military but came from a military family and respected the service and sacrifice. Amber is not sure if Jon knew the robbers had guns. But, regardless he would have done what he did. His family asks for the communities continued support as they try to heal from a senseless act.
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But the report that linked to it, added in a bit of their own news.

SAN ANTONIO (KABB/WOAI) - The good Samaritan who was killed trying to stop a jewelry store robbery in San Antonio, Texas on Sunday afternoon has been identified as Jonathan Murphy.

A GoFundMe page, which has not yet been confirmed to be associated with Murphy's family, described him as a retired Marine and a manager at a car dealership.

The fund organizer said Murphy was a "first rate protector" who was with his wife at the jewelry store to get their wedding bands cleaned.
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Deadly, dangerous weekend across the country

Marcos Gurrola Arrested After Firing 50 Shots In California Mall Parking Lot
Huffington Post
12/15/12

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — A man was arrested Saturday after firing about 50 shots in the parking lot of a Southern California shopping mall, prompting a lockdown of stores crowded with holiday shoppers.

Marcos Gurrola, 42, of Garden Grove was taken into custody by bicycle police officers patrolling around the open-air Fashion Island mall around 4:30 p.m., police spokeswoman Cathy Lowe said. She said he fired into the air and onto the ground in the parking lot near a Macy's department store.

No one was injured, but the gunfire caused panic, coming a day after a gunman killed 26 children and adults at a Connecticut elementary school, and days after a deadly mall shooting in Oregon.
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Christopher Krumm, Casper College Shooter, Wrote Suicide Notes, Police Say
Huffington Post
12/16/12

CASPER, Wyo. -- Investigators say they have found two suicide notes written by a man who killed his father in front of a computer science class at a Wyoming community college.

Police say Krumm barged into a classroom at the college Nov. 30 and shot his father, 56-year-old James Krumm, with an arrow in front of a handful of students. As the students fled, the Vernon, Conn., man stabbed his father with a knife, then killed himself.
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Von I. Meyer Arrested: Indiana School Threatened By Man Owning 47 Guns
By RICK CALLAHAN 12/16/12
INDIANAPOLIS — A northern Indiana police chief said Sunday he believes a man arrested after allegedly threatening to "kill as many people as he could" at a school was just bluffing when he made the ominous remark during a heated argument with his wife.
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UPDATE
December 18, 2012
San Antonio Movie Theater Shooting: Gunman Shoots 1 In Theater Parking Lot
12/17/12
SAN ANTONIO — Sheriff's officials say a man opened fire in a San Antonio movie theater parking lot, wounding one person before an officer shot him inside the theater.

Bexar (bayr) County sheriff's spokesman Louis Antu says the incident started about 9:30 p.m. Sunday when the man fired shots inside a nearby restaurant. It's not clear what led to the shooting.
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Heroes showed up at Clackamas for Christmas shoppers

Heroes showed up at Clackamas for Christmas shoppers
by Kathie Costos
Wounded Times Blog
December 12, 2012

Last night watching the news come out about the shooting at the Clackamas Town Center I was not focusing on the gunman deciding he had the right to kill people, but more on the heroes taking action to help others.

Before police and SWAT teams arrived, average employees were getting people to safe places, locking doors and doing whatever they could to help them. A woman was interviewed and said she was at the Macy's Lancôme counter when an employee got her out of the store and then said he was going back to help others out. Imagine that! In all that horror, this young employee thought of others and risked his life.

The Mall was full of families and people thinking of others buying Christmas gifts for people they cared about but this gunman wanted to take loved ones away. Why? I don't really care right now. His story will come out and for a while his name will be talked about. After all, think of all the lives this man pulled into his life in a very bad way.

"When the shooting began, people in line to get their photos taken with Santa immediately dove for cover, KGW reported."

"Kristina Shevchenko, was rushed to the hospital "critical" condition, according to a family statement. After surgery, the 15-year-old was upgraded to "stable" condition."

More heroes showed up to make sure people were safe. The gunman was dead and so were two other innocent people. A 15 years old was fighting for her life in surgery. Moms and Dads waiting with their kids for a visit with Santa ran or their lives along with everyone else in the Mall.

We can glorify the murderer or we can glorify the heroes. I choose to focus on the heroes and how God really was there last night because when people are able to risk their own lives for someone else, that comes from God. So while we may think evil was able to destroy this season of giving, he didn't succeed. Lives were saved because heroes acted out of love.

Police search for shooter in mall slaying Tukwila, Washington.

Police search for shooter in mall slaying
Story Highlights
Police trying to determine if mall shooting was gang-related

Some people said group of teens had been involved in a fight

Store manager: "Parents grabbed their kids and ran out of there"

Mall placed on lockdown while police search for suspect


(CNN) -- Authorities continued to search for the person who shot one man to death and critically injured another Saturday evening at a shopping center in Tukwila, Washington.



The shooting victims, believed to be in their 20s, were removed from the Westfield Southcenter on stretchers and taken to Harborview Medical Center, police spokesman Mike Murphy said Saturday.

He didn't know how many times they were shot.

A woman who appeared to go into labor and a man who suffered a neck injury as people rushed from the shopping area were also taken to the hospital, Murphy said.

Eyewitness Chris Plummer told CNN affiliate KIRO-TV there was a fight between a group of 18- to 20-year-olds, and one of them pulled out a gun and started shooting. Plummer told KIRO-TV he was standing next to the shooter when bullets started to fly -- six to seven shots in all.

Murphy told KIRO-TV that authorities are trying to determine whether the shooting was gang-related.

The mall was placed on lockdown as SWAT teams searched store-to-store for the shooter. At least two people were detained for questioning, but neither was the shooter, Murphy said.

Shoppers and employees described a chaotic scene.
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