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A young woman with a concealed weapons permit and a gun was on the scene at the terrorism-like attack on mourners at Greenlawn Memorial Park and might have prevented further bloodshed.
The presence of a gun was confirmed by Jennifer Timmons, a spokeswoman for the Columbia Police Department.
Timmons said the woman “presented” the gun at the scene, where accused assailant James Kester’s car had come to a stop amid the low-lying memorial tombstones and plaques. The woman had a valid permit to carry a concealed weapon in public, Timmons said.
A dozen people were injured, none fatally but several seriously, when the car mowed into them during the early afternoon service.
Kester, 64, who faces 12 counts of attempted murder, weaponized his car to try to kill mourners, police and warrants said. Kester was seeking revenge against the S.C. Department of Mental Health, which had treated his daughter, who died last year. Livingston’s funeral became a target when he read her obituary earlier in the week, police said. He is being held on a $5 million bond.
https://bearingarms.com/jenn-j/2017/07/ ... asualties/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;It wasn’t until the next day that Montgomery heard about the woman with the gun. “That struck me as a good thing,” he said. “We all think perhaps she prevented something else, because if he had started up again, at least one of us was prepared.” And even though Kester’s car had stopped, people believed he might come at them again. “We had the same fear: that this might not be over.”
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