This is like the old days when citizens became members of a posse to help get the bad guys. I think you are going to see more of this in the era we are now in.
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An armed passing motorist was credited with saving the life of an …
PHOENIX (AP) - An Arizona state trooper stopped to help at a car wreck along a remote highway Thursday when he was shot and wounded in …
Ambushed Arizona Trooper Saved by Armed Passing Motorist Who Shot Attacker Dead
"I would just say at this point, thank you, because I don't know that my trooper would be alive today without his assistance," Col. Frank Milstead, director of the Arizona Department of Public Safety, said after he met with the seriously injured trooper at the hospital.
The trooper — a 27-year veteran who hasn't been identified but was reported as stable with gunshot wounds in his chest and right shoulder — was responding to reports that shots had been fired at about 4 a.m. (6 a.m. ET) on Interstate 10 about 40 miles west of Phoenix, Milstead said.
On the way, the trooper spotted a rollover accident, stopped to investigate and began blocking off the scene. A woman who was believed to have been ejected from the vehicle was later determined to have died at the scene, authorities said.
The gunman then attacked the trooper with his hands, bashing his head into the pavement, Milstead said. That's when the passing motorist stopped.
"The trooper says, 'Please help me,' and asks the uninvolved third party for help," Milstead said. "That person retreats back to his vehicle, removes his own weapon from the vehicle, confronts the suspect, giving him orders to stop assaulting the officer. The suspect refuses. The uninvolved third party fires, striking and killing the suspect."
The hero driver was identified only as a man who was traveling to California with his wife.
A second motorist who also stopped at the scene ran to the trooper's vehicle, grabbed its radio and called for help.
According to a recording of the police radio exchange, Schober told a dispatcher: "Hello, officer down, officer down outside Tonopah. Come in, please. This is a civilian. He's shot on I-10 on the eastbound lane — sorry, westbound lane."
Schober continued: "He's in real bad shape. Please send air support, helicopter, please. There are also two civilians on — off — [the] road also laying [in] unknown condition."
The dispatcher began coordinating an emergency response, keeping Schober on the radio before asking for a status report.
"I believe he was in an altercation with a motorist," he responded. "There's a lady laying on the road, uh, still moving, not dead. The other gentleman was shot by a passerby who, uh, stopped the altercation after the officer was shot. ...
"The suspect is occasionally snorting or breathing. He's been shot by the passerby. He's laying right next to the officer," Schober reported.
"We don't know what the story is, and we'll figure that out as time goes on," he said. But one thing was clear, he said:
"In our worst hour, we may need your help, and this was today. ... Thank you. Thank you for the support."
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