Family says woman shot by Kalamazoo gunman saved kids
Source: Detroit Free Press
Tiana Carruthers was at a playground late Saturday afternoon at her Richland Township apartment complex with her young daughter, a niece and three other children when a man pulled up to the curb in a silver-colored SUV and motioned for her to come over.
When Carruthers, 25, approached, the man -- later identified as alleged Kalamazoo shooter and Uber driver Jason Dalton -- mumbled, asked if she knew a woman by a certain name, then calmly pulled a gun out from his coat and shot her once near her shoulder, Carruthers' grandmother Phoenix Windwalker told the Free Press in an interview Tuesday morning.
Carruthers turned, screamed for the children to run and blocked them from the gunman with her body, as she was shot at least two more times in the hip and leg area, before the gunman sped off, Windwalker said. Police said they recovered 10 spent shell casings at the scene. . .
Read more: http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/02/23/family-says-woman-shot-kalamazoo-gunman-saved-kids/80797422/
A true hero, bless her heart.
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bless her a million times over.
