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U.S. NEWS Thursday 16 November 2017

Police: ‘Miracle’ more weren’t shot by man with guns, armor

By C. THOMPSON der, assault, criminal use of just before officers arrived
Associated Press a firearm and resisting ar- he jumped in his car, drove
CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (AP) rest. He pleaded not guilty across a grassy strip and hit
— Police called it a miracle and was ordered held in the gunman, who flew over
that more people weren’t the Erie County Jail without the vehicle and landed on
hurt when a man wearing bail. The name of his lawyer the ground.
body armor and armed wasn’t immediately avail- The man, now unarmed,
with two rifles and hun- able. got up and ran with Pin-
dreds of rounds of ammo His mother, Viola Green, navaia and his employee,
opened fire on a Dollar was with her son during Christopher Kaufmann, in
General store, wounding his arraignment and after- pursuit.
one man before being ward said he and his wife Police soon arrived and
tackled by officers. recently broke up after took over the chase.
Investigators say 29-year- seven years of marriage. Dashcam video showed of-
old Travis Green was ini- She said her son spent part ficers tackling the suspect
tially unarmed when he of the day Tuesday moving and taking him into custo-
walked into the store in this his things out of their house. dy without firing a shot.
Buffalo suburb Tuesday af- “I guess the stress took Zack called the bystanders
ternoon before going back over,” Viola Green said. heroes.
outside to his car, retriev- After the gunfire erupted “There’s no question these
ing a pump-action, AR-15- about 2:45 p.m. individuals saved lives.”
style rifle and firing at least Tuesday, police said there Back at work Wednesday,
20 bullets at the building. was some initial confusion Pinnavaia and Kaufmann
The only person hit was a over the exact location of This Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017 photo provided by the Cheektowaga said they acted out of in-
53-year-old man outside the Dollar General, since Police department shows Travis Green, who has been arrested stinct.
the store who suffered a the sprawling suburb of in the shooting in Cheektowaga, N.Y. Authorities say it’s a “I don’t think it’s about be-
non-life-threatening gun- about 90,000 people has “miracle” that more people weren’t shot when Green, armed ing a hero,” Kauffmann
shot wound to his shoulder. six of them. with two semi-automatic rifles, opened fire on a suburban said.
When police searched the Mark Pinnavaia, the own- Buffalo retail store, wounding one man before being tackled by “It’s about doing what you
gunman’s car, they found er of a neighboring auto police. think you need to do.”
850 rounds and what ap- electronics store, said that (Cheektowaga PD via AP) q
peared to be a semi-auto-
matic rifle with ammunition Autopsy:
magazines.
reading the names of the Mother’s dismembered remains found in storage unit
“It is a miracle I’m not
deceased,” police Chief
David Zack said in a news By H. HOLLINGSWORTH bond in Johnson County, two small children staying that he had stayed in the
conference afterward. The Associated Press Kansas, on two counts in a unit that was emitting unit overnight and told the
Considering the number of KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — each of aggravated child a foul odor. man that he and his chil-
rounds that hit the store, he Preliminary autopsy results endangerment and con- A Lenexa police detective dren were planning to do
said, those inside “clearly confirm that dismembered tributing to a child’s mis- wrote in the affidavit that so again, the affidavit says.
were extremely lucky.” human remains found in- conduct or deprivation. responding officers spoke Emergency responders
Zack called it an unpro- side a suburban Kansas City He’s not charged in the to a man who was push- checked on the children,
voked attack. storage unit are those of a death of his wife, whom ing a stroller and had given who were later taken to a
And while a motive was woman whose husband family identified as Jessica Rey and his children a ride hospital.
under investigation, he was staying in the unit with Monteiro Rey. to the storage unit after The affidavit says the baby
said: “I believe we would their 4-day-old baby and The dismembered remains finding them waiting for a wasn’t wearing adequate
be safe in ruling out terror- 2-year-old child. were discovered Oct. 24 bus near a Kansas City, Mis- clothing and had an eye
ism.” An arrest affidavit for Justin inside a cooler and tote at souri, bar. infection.
Green, from Buffalo, was Rey, a 35-year-old home- a U-Haul Moving and Stor- Rey is homeless, and the After Rey was arrested and
arraigned Wednesday in less man, was released age facility in Lenexa. man had seen people giv- put in a police vehicle, he
town court on charges that Tuesday. Officers had been called ing Rey money. was asked about his wife’s
included attempted mur- He’s jailed on $1 million to check on the welfare of Rey told U-Haul employees whereabouts. q