On August 31, 2024, in the neighborhood of Waianae, about 30 miles west of Honolulu, Hiram Silva attacked a home with a large front loader, ramming cars into the house. The Silva had a rifle and a pistol. Silva then shot and killed three women in the carport and wounded another man and a woman. Silva had four 55-gallon fuel drums on the front-end loader and was reportedly shooting at the fuel drums.
A resident of the home retrieved a pistol, rushed to the carport, and shot and killed Silva, stopping the deadly attack before it became an inferno of burning fuel.
This is clearly a case of a legally armed person stopping a mass murder. It remains to be seen if the FBI will count it as such. It is interesting to see how the heroic act was treated in the media. As reported in by the Associated Press, in kpua.net:
Police responded to a 911 call reporting their neighbor was operating a front-end loader and using it to ram multiple cars into the home where a family gathering was taking place, then opened fire at people gathered in the carport. The gunfire hit and killed the three women. A 42-year-old man living in the house shot and killed the man with a handgun, police said.
A man and another woman were injured in addition to the women killed.
Note the emphasis in the article. The defender “shot and killed a man.” Of the murderer, “The gunfire hit and killed three women.” The defender is depersonalized as a killer. The attacker just happened to be involved in an incident where “gunfire hit and killed three women.”
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