Hero in mall stabbing: We wish to go back to our lives
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Taunton, Mass., Mayor Thomas Hoye, Jr., right, speaks about Tuesday’s stabbings at a Taunton home and shopping mall, Wednesday, May 11, 2016, in Fall River, Mass. Behind him are Taunton Police Chief Edward Walsh, left, and Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn III. Arthur DaRosa, described by his family as mentally disturbed, went on a stabbing rampage hours after leaving a hospital. He killed two people and assaulted and stabbed others before being fatally shot by an off-duty sheriff’s deputy at the Silver City Galleria mall.
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) » The Massachusetts sheriff’s deputy called a hero for fatally shooting a man on a stabbing rampage in a restaurant is speaking out.
Plymouth County Deputy James Creed said in a statement posted on the department’s Facebook page that the May 10 events in which two people were killed and five injured were “in every way a senseless tragedy.”
Creed acknowledged the bravery of George Heath, the teacher fatally stabbed defending a waitress at the Bertucci’s restaurant at Taunton’s Silver City Galleria mall. Creed also credited his wife, Laura, a nurse who helped the victims.
He says we “wish to go back to our jobs, our families, and our lives.”
Creed shot Arthur DaRosa, who went on the rampage the day after he went to the hospital feeling depressed and suicidal.
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A “good guy with a gun” put an end to a murderous rampage. The only regrettable part to this incident is that Arthur DaRosa wasn’t stopped before fatally stabbing two innocent victims.