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Moved by 9/11, man fought killer
By the time Ian Lee Stawicki’s rampage was over, five people had been shot — four fatally.
The man had been banned from the cafe but that didn’t stop him from walking in, taking a seat at the bar and trying to place an order.
After the barista declined to serve him, he stood up, took out a gun and shot the man next to him.
Then he worked his way up the bar, calmly taking life after life from the people seated there or scrambling 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.
The tactic created enough of a delay in the shooting that two or three other customers were able to bolt out the door to safety.
“My brother died in the World Trade Center,” the man later told police.
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 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 Sept. 11, 2001.
http://www.bendbulletin.com/article/20120602/NEWS0107/206020320/
By the time Ian Lee Stawicki’s rampage was over, five people had been shot — four fatally.
The man had been banned from the cafe but that didn’t stop him from walking in, taking a seat at the bar and trying to place an order.
After the barista declined to serve him, he stood up, took out a gun and shot the man next to him.
Then he worked his way up the bar, calmly taking life after life from the people seated there or scrambling 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.
The tactic created enough of a delay in the shooting that two or three other customers were able to bolt out the door to safety.
“My brother died in the World Trade Center,” the man later told police.
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 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 Sept. 11, 2001.
http://www.bendbulletin.com/article/20120602/NEWS0107/206020320/
