Good Samaritan who killed Indianapolis mall shooter identified as 22-year-old Elisjsha Dicken.
Sunday, their disturbed killer and the hero bystander who shot him dead — and likely saved countless others from being gunned down.
If it wasn’t for Elisjsha Dicken’s quick actions in taking down the gunman, “Many more people would have died,” says Greenwood Police Chief James Ison.Sapirman, who quit his warehouse job and was facing eviction from his home, entered the mall shortly before 5 p.m. and went straight into a bathroom near the food court where he spent more than an hour preparing for the shooting, Ison said.
“His actions were nothing short of heroic,” Ison said. “He engaged the gunman from quite a distance with a handgun, was very proficient in that, very tactically sound and as he moved to close in on the suspect, he was also motioning for people to exit behind him.” Police recovered a second rifle, handgun, multiple magazines and more than 100 rounds of ammunition that were on the shooter and stashed in the mall bathroom. Officers also recovered Sapirman’s cell phone, which he tossed into a toilet in a bathroom stall.
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