Gun carrying man ends stabbing spree at Salt Lake grocery store

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   Reported by: Don Hudson
A downtown Smith's shopper watches police investigate a stabbing at the store. (Don Hudson, Don Hudson)A downtown Smith’s shopper watches police investigate a stabbing at the store. (Don Hudson, Don Hudson)

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) – A citizen with a gun stopped a knife wielding man as he began stabbing people Thursday evening at the downtown Salt Lake City Smith’s store.

Police say the suspect purchased a knife inside the store and then turned it into a weapon. Smith’s employee Dorothy Espinoza says, “He pulled it out and stood outside the Smiths in the foyer. And just started stabbing people and yelling you killed my people. You killed my people.”

Espinoza says, the knife wielding man seriously injured two people. “There is blood all over. One got stabbed in the stomach and got stabbed in the head and held his hands and got stabbed all over the arms.”

Then, before the suspect could find another victim – a citizen with a gun stopped the madness. “A guy pulled gun on him and told him to drop his weapon or he would shoot him. So, he dropped his weapon and the people from Smith’s grabbed him.”

By the time officers arrived the suspect had been subdued by employees and shoppers. Police had high praise for gun carrying man who ended the hysteria. Lt. Brian Purvis said, “This was a volatile situation that could have gotten worse. We can only assume from what we saw it could have gotten worse. He was definitely in the right place at the right time.”

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9 Replies to “Gun carrying man ends stabbing spree at Salt Lake grocery store”

  1. Salt Lake was where a Bosnian refugee Sulejman Talovic went on a shooting spree in a shopping mall and killed 6 in 2007. He was put down by an armed off-duty cop so we never got to hear about his motivation.

  2. If Obama, Hijab Hillary, Holder and Co. had their way, this incident would have been much bloodier because the Second Amendment would no longer exist.

  3. Oh I was wrong with the Tibetans ?
    Weird,….


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