Man hurled bar stools at Seattle gunman
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June 2, 2012, Saturday
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THE man had been banned from the artsy Seattle cafe, but he showed up anyway and tried to place an order. After the barista declined to serve him, he stood up, took out a gun and began shooting as people scrambled for cover.
One man tried to stop him.
Grabbing the only weapons at hand - bar stools - he tossed them at the gunman, even as the man aimed at him, Seattle Assistant Police Chief Jim Pugel said on Thursday after reviewing surveillance video of the massacre. The tactic created enough of a delay in the shooting that two or three customers managed to escape.
"My brother died in the World Trade Center," the man later told police, who did not release his name. After his brother's death, he said, he resolved that if something like this ever happened, "I would never hide under a table."
The Seattle Times on Thursday identified the man as Lawrence Adams, 56. Adams told the newspaper that his brother, Stephen Adams, an employee at the Windows on the World restaurant, had been killed in the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001.
By the time Ian Lee Stawicki's rampage was over, five people had been shot in Cafe Racer - four fatally, including two musicians who played there.
After leaving, the gunman fatally shot a woman while stealing her sports-utility vehicle, then drove to West Seattle, where he met up with an old friend who had no idea what he'd done, police said.
The friend called police after learning of the shootings. Stawicki killed himself on a street as officers moved in.
"I've never seen anything more callous, horrific and cold," Deputy Police Chief Nick Metz said on Thursday.
One man tried to stop him.
Grabbing the only weapons at hand - bar stools - he tossed them at the gunman, even as the man aimed at him, Seattle Assistant Police Chief Jim Pugel said on Thursday after reviewing surveillance video of the massacre. The tactic created enough of a delay in the shooting that two or three customers managed to escape.
"My brother died in the World Trade Center," the man later told police, who did not release his name. After his brother's death, he said, he resolved that if something like this ever happened, "I would never hide under a table."
The Seattle Times on Thursday identified the man as Lawrence Adams, 56. Adams told the newspaper that his brother, Stephen Adams, an employee at the Windows on the World restaurant, had been killed in the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001.
By the time Ian Lee Stawicki's rampage was over, five people had been shot in Cafe Racer - four fatally, including two musicians who played there.
After leaving, the gunman fatally shot a woman while stealing her sports-utility vehicle, then drove to West Seattle, where he met up with an old friend who had no idea what he'd done, police said.
The friend called police after learning of the shootings. Stawicki killed himself on a street as officers moved in.
"I've never seen anything more callous, horrific and cold," Deputy Police Chief Nick Metz said on Thursday.
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