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Lesson in heroism. (The Goodness of America).(bystander uses police officer's gun to apprehend woman who shot officer)(Brief Article)
Shortly before 1:00 p.m. on May 8th, police officer William Chavis made a routine stop of a Mitsubishi jeep near Dickinson High School in Jersey City, New Jersey. Chavis, a 13-year Jersey City Police Department veteran, became suspicious when he noticed a hypodermic needle on the dashboard. He placed a male passenger in the back seat of his squad car. But when he began walking back to the jeep to talk to the female driver, standing by the vehicle, she suddenly displayed a .32-caliber handgun (which she had illegally obtained despite the Garden State's draconian gun control laws) and opened fire. One bullet struck Chavis in the right shoulder, a second slammed into the right side of his neck, and at least one other missed.
James Ahern, 51, a history teacher at the high school and himself a former police officer, was reading a book and eating lunch in his car when he witnessed the shooting. He ran to help Officer Chavis as the woman fled, told him that assistance was on the way, then took the wounded officer's gun and handcuffs and ran after the assailant. He caught up to her ...
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