Thursday, June 16, 2016

Student used pepper spray to take down Seattle campus shooter

Student used pepper spray to take down Seattle campus shooter:
"SEATTLE — Video surveillance of the 2014 shooting at Seattle Pacific University shows a male student pepper spraying the shooter, seizing the shooter’s shotgun and then detaining him until another person arrived to help.
The King County Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday released 18 DVDs of surveillance video captured on June 5, 2014, and prior days.
A three-minute excerpt shows the take-down of Aaron Ybarra, the 27-year-old man who shot and killed one student and injured two others at the Seattle school’s campus.
KING 5 and other news organizations went to court to obtain the videos, which the prosecutor’s office had acquired as part of its investigation and ongoing prosecution of Ybarra. KING 5 has not decided not to air the footage in full, recognizing that it could be disturbing to many viewers, especially the SPU community..."

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