Heroic 16 yr old girl saves cop from rampaging gunman

[paulsby]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010747823_911tapes09m.html

chilling link to audio files of the 911 tapes at link



"While the dispatcher is contacting medics, Bryona, Crable's daughter, arrived at the neighbor's house and can be heard crying in the background, "My dad just shot a cop!"

She's surprisingly calm when she is put on the phone. She describes her father to the dispatcher, and when asked if she could tell how the officer was doing, if he was OK, she responded with a hitch in her voice: "No, he was laying on his stomach on the floor. I think he shot him a couple of times," she said.

Her dad "came out of the living room just shooting randomly, then he took down one cop and I was trying to grab the gun from him," Bryona Crable said.

Sheriff's officials have credited Bryona and her uncle with saving Hausner's life. Troyer said the girl threw herself on her father and wrestled with him even as he was dying from his wounds."

[TexasObserver]

1. Recommend

[Maru Kitteh]

2. Holy Lord. No kid should have to go through that.

I am so grateful every day for the life I've had and how lucky I am. There are so many lonely people out there, and so many who find themselves in a living nightmare. There but for the grace of God.....

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. You are so right. That poor kid. :^(

[Canuckistanian]

3. What a nightmare for her

She was probably torn between her love for her father and the slaying of another human being.

She's going to need some loving help for the next few years. Or even decades.

[Control-Z]

4. I'm not sure that

a child ever does really recover from something like this. It sounds like her uncle has guardianship, and it appears he has a fairly good head on his shoulders. (He recognized the need for intervention before the violence broke out.)

I hope there is a woman in the young girl's life who can be there for her, loving her and helping her, along with her uncle. Sad, sad.

[Danger Mouse]

5. Dear Lord.

Truly heroic...and sad...

[Dogmudgeon]

7. K&R -- and can I Recommend Bryona Crable herself, directly?

I wrote a few words about this, but couldn't really finish it.

--d!

[Historic NY]

8. Brave girl.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

9. Brave girl I hope everyone recovers.

[paulsby]

10. Hausner had a full recovery. Mundell died. nt

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

11. I meant everyone who could recover should have clarified.

[paulsby]

12. Hausner is doing great.

Saw him at the funeral. Cops came from all over. Lots of mounties even.

This 16 yr old girl is probably the most popular girl amongst their department members right now.

[proteus_lives]

13. That brave girl. RIP to the fallen deputy.

That girl is going to have town full of uncles in Blue for the rest of her life.