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Mall Patrons’ Lives Saved Thanks to Armed Bystander

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An armed bystander helped shopping mall security gain the upper hand over a knife-wielding maniac recently. According to the arrest report, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department took Letrelle Calhoun into custody.

Armed and vigilant bystander

Mall security couldn’t have detained Calhoun without an assist from an armed and vigilant bystander. Around 3:15 p.m. on March 23, officers report, they responded to the Fashion Show Mall, “after receiving a call that employees of Abercrombie & Fitch were reportedly being threatened by a man with a knife.

Well, they assumed Calhoun is a “man.” Nobody cowering behind the counter at the trendy store asked for pronouns. In these days of transgender shooters you really can’t tell offhand.

By the time Las Vegas police made it to the mall, the armed suspect had already vanished. Officers calmed down the rattled employees and took a report.

While they were performing their duties as social workers, they got an alert that “the same male was seen flashing a knife in the Plaza area of the mall.” By the time the officers got there, three of the mall security guards were already in action.

The private security team had been alerted by shoppers to the male with a knife making threats and hustled to the plaza. As soon as they got there, they spotted Calhoun “acting erratically.

Not knowing about the prior incident in the store, security “attempted to walk him off the property away from people.” That’s about when the armed and agitated individual “became aggressive and pulled out a knife from his front left pocket and held it upside down, like in a stabbing position.

I’ll kill you on camera

Apparently, the deranged assailant believed the security video was about to make him a wealthy social media star. According to the police report, Calhoun “lunged at the three security officers and made threats.

Things like, “I’ll kill you on camera” and “I’ll come back with a hundred and kill you all.” It attracted the attention of a well-heeled onlooker. One armed with more than a knife.

Police relate that while “the suspect was threatening the officers, multiple bystanders started running away.” One didn’t run. One “bystander who observed the incident pulled out a handgun and pointed it at Calhoun.

The armed response “gave the security officers the opportunity to disarm Calhoun and place him in hand restraints.” Soon after, LVPD took over and dragged him off to the cop shop.

The local fox outlet reports that “Las Vegas police officers arrived shortly after and assisted in taking Calhoun into custody.

The officers, according to police, reviewed video footage from the mall and concurred the story of the three officers.” The armed and vigilant bystander wasn’t mentioned but he gets a big thank you from the community. Even if the mall is a “gun free zone.

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