Elisjsha Dicken

Elishjah Dicken, 22, shot and killed the suspect in a move police say saved countless lives.

A husband and wife from Indianapolis identified as Pedro Pineda, 56, and Rosa Mirian Rivera de Pineda, 37, as well as Victor Gomez, 30, were fatally wounded ...

Officers also recovered Sapirman’s cell phone, which he tossed into a toilet in a bathroom stall. Two minutes after Sapirman opened fire, Dicken confronted him and shot 10 rounds at him from a distance. “His actions were nothing short of heroic,” Ison said. She is recovering in an area hospital. An hour and two minutes later, he exited the bathroom and immediately began firing a rifle at people in the food court — first striking Gomez and then the Pinedas. Sapirman, 20, was also killed when he was shot by a legally armed man who was at the mall shopping with his girlfriend at the time, Greenwood Police Chief James Ison said at a press conference.

Officials identified the suspect in the Greenwood Park Mall shooting as Jonathan Douglas Sapirman, 20, and the man who fatally shot him as Elisjsha Dicken, ...

“We grieve for the victims of yesterday’s horrific tragedy in Greenwood,” the statement said. I told everybody around me with the little bit of breath that I had, ‘They said there’s a shooter, there’s a shooter. And as he moved to close in on the suspect, he was also motioning for people to exit behind him." Sapirman had resigned from a warehouse job in May, Ison said. "He engaged the gunman from quite a distance with a handgun, was very proficient in that, very tactically sound. The term has been contentious because supporters of gun owners' rights say it implies battlefield capability when the rifle was made for "sporting" uses and doesn't shoot rapid-fire, as the battlefield versions do. “I saw people pushing past each other and running as fast as they could. "The firearm industry takes these attempts to ban entire classes of firearms seriously," he said by email. Police said the gun is a Smith & Wesson M&P 15, described by its users as an AR-platform rifle, or AR clone. Authorities have not pieced together a motive, and Sapirman had no criminal record as an adult. “I basically ran like the wind. Greenwood Mayor Mark W. Myers said Monday, "I grieve for these senseless killings.

The gunman who killed three people in a shopping mall near Indianapolis would likely have taken many more lives if not for the "heroic" actions of an armed ...

The company said the mall was closed on Monday. He did not drive and was believed to have walked to the mall on Sunday, the chief said. The Indianapolis-based company was unavailable for comment on Monday. He had frequented a local shooting range for target practice over the past two years. Greenwood Police Chief Jim Ison credited Dicken, who was at the shopping mall with his girlfriend on Sunday night, as a hero whose bravery and competence prevented further bloodshed. The shooting lasted just two minutes from the time the suspect opened fire until he was killed.

As police rushed shoppers at Greenwood Park Mall to safety Sunday evening after a mass shooting, 19-year-old Shay Goldman's grandmother was getting ...

In the interim, we ask that you respect the privacy of Eli and his family.” She said she took her coat off and put a tourniquet around it and waited,” her grandmother explained. Was very proficient in that, was tactically sound and as he moved to close in on the suspect, he was also motioning for people to exit behind him,” Greenwood Police Chief Jim Ison said about Eli’s actions. Because we want to respect the ongoing criminal investigation by the Greenwood Police Department and take time to honor the three innocent lives lost, we won’t be making any substantive comments on Sunday’s events until after the authorities’ investigation is closed. “If he didn’t stop, you think of how many people in that food court?” Shay’s grandmother asked. Eli has not yet spoken with the media about the shooting. And pray for this world!” She says ‘Grandma I’m OK, but I’m terrified,’ and then she says, ‘Grandma what is the world coming to?’ And she says ‘I don’t think I’ll ever step foot in a mall again,’” the grandmother told 13News. “I just know that I’m so proud of him for what he’s done. “Just please let’s pray for them. Shay was traumatized, but safe, her grandmother says, thanks to Shay’s boyfriend, Elisjsha Dicken. The 22-year-old from Seymour took down the mall shooter with lethal force. He engaged the gunman from quite a distance with a handgun.

Dressed in shorts and a T-shirt, Elisjsha Dicken was shopping with his girlfriend when a gunman opened fire on a food court at a Greenwood, Indiana, ...

"This young man, Greenwood's good Samaritan, acted within seconds, stopping the shooter and saving countless lives," Myers said. In 10 of those, the "good guy" was a security guard or an off-duty police officer, ALERRT data showed. Police then took Dicken to the station, where detectives interviewed him. As he moved in on the gunman, Dicken motioned for people to leave behind him, the chief said. There were at least 434 active shooter attacks in the US from 2000 to 2021, according to ALERRT data. While the shooter, 20-year-old Douglas Sapirman, fired 24 rounds from an AR-15-style rifle, Dicken did not hesitate to use the Glock handgun he was legally carrying.