Can we please say a big DU THANK YOU to Ian Grillot, the 24 yr. HERO?

[pnwmom]

After a hater shot two engineers from India, killing one, this 24 year old tried to take him down -- but Ian "miscounted" and there was still a bullet left . . . which just missed one of the young man's major arteries.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article134581204.html

At least one witness reportedly heard the suspect yell “get out of my country” shortly before shooting men he reportedly thought were Middle Eastern. Both men, engineers at Garmin, appear to be originally from India.

One of the victims, Srinivas Kuchibhotla, died of his injuries. Alok Madasani was released from a hospital Thursday.

Earlier Thursday, Grillot said, he looked up to see Madasani standing in his doorway.

“It just put the biggest smile on my face,” Grillot said. “I’m just very grateful that one of the gentlemen is fine and alive. It’s terrible what happened to his friend. But I think he was watching over us last night.”

Grillot said that he learned Madasani’s wife is five months pregnant and that he considers the engineer his new best friend. Grillot said he hopes the two can spend some time together when they get out of the hospital. “I don’t think it’s going to be at the bar, though,” he said. Maybe over a backyard grill and a couple of beers.

[Tom Rinaldo]

1. That word was made for people like him n/t

[pnwmom]

2. It certainly was.

[AJT]

3. A real American hero.

[BeckyDem]

4. Hero, fearless, courage in the face of danger, love for his fellow man. Thank you.

[iluvtennis]

8. + 100nt

[Separation]

5. Awesome story but this kind raised my eyebrow.

Grillot’s sister, Maggie, recounted the shooting in a Facebook message to update friends and others on his condition.
“He tried standing up for two people who were being wrongly bullied,” Maggie Grillot wrote.

I didn't read anything about people being bullied. What I read was a white nationalist terrorist trying to kill three people. I'm pretty sure that I'm reading more into that than what is there. But for some reason it bothered me.

[randome]

6. Eh. Not everyone is nimble with the written word. She may not have expressed herself clearly.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

[Separation]

7. More than likely

[Wounded Bear]

9. Well, racism and terrorizing are "bullying" and vice versa...

[pnwmom]

10. There were other articles that made this part clearer. The shooter

was harassing the engineers (they should go back to their own country, etc) and Ian stood up for them. Then the shooter came back with a gun and started shooting. He shot the two engineers and turned to leave, and Ian -- thinking he'd run out of bullets -- tried to stop him. But he then got shot, too.

[malaise]

11. Yes

Maybe CNN should be covering this instead of the non-stop Con job

[Jim Beard]

12. This is the type of story I used to Hear on Headline News

I miss it. It was a quick way to catch when stopping to read is not feasable.

Sad to say, they had pitiful rating when they quit doing the news.

[malaise]

13. +1,000

This should have been the #1 story since yesterday

[ogsball]

14. But don't call him a racist ** sarcasm **

Friends we need to call people out.

I'm tired of people saying this person or that person isn't a racist. You a do a racist thing you are a racist. 100 non-racist things do not change that.

Shooting people because they do not look like you is racist.
Thinking it's okay to stop someone to check if he or she is a citizen because they don't 'look' like he or she is, is racist.
Being more afraid of someone because of his or her race is racist.

Now we can all evaluate ourselves and figure out how to counteract the racism (maybe a 12 step program).

[pnwmom]

15. "Him" as referring to the shooter -- not the subject of the OP. nt

[Blue_Tires]

16. +1

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