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He broadcasts over his radio that have
been fired, and gives the location.
As Smith does so, gunman Ryan
Carey turns his attention to another
target, the female officer in the lead
patrol car, who has also come to a stop
after hearing the shot. She twists in the
driver’s seat to reach for her own AR-15
in its rack when a powerful 7.62x54mm
Russian bullet — roughly the equivalent
of an American .30-06 — crashes
through the rear doorpost and window
of her driver’s door, passing through
the passenger compartment. Had she
still been in the upright driving position
behind the steering wheel, it would
have gone squarely through her brain.
Instead, her movement in reaching for
her patrol rifle has pulled her barely
inches out of the bullet’s lethal path.
Mandie Rudolph pulls her car forward
more, then exits the vehicle, rifle
in hand and running toward the danger.
Behind the house, sprinting himself,
Brent Smith hears her report on the
radio that gunfire has struck her police
vehicle. And, he knows, Officers Moertl
and Polishinski are racing toward the
scene to assist.
It’s a big house, and a long way
to run, and things are happening fast.
What Smith, on the opposite side of
the building, cannot know at this point
is Ryan Carey has emptied his boltaction
Mosin-Nagant rifle. The wouldbe
cop-killer has run inside the building,
dumped the empty Mosin, and grabbed
another gun, a WWII-era bolt-action
Yugoslavian carbine. It is fully loaded.
He emerges, hunting for new targets.
As he does so, Officer Brent Smith
has cleared the corner at the rear of the
building. Approaching that corner, he
has been concerned the ambusher might
be there waiting for him, and has visualized
himself jamming the muzzle of his
patrol rifle into the man’s sternum.
But instead, what he sees is down
the side of the building, 50 feet away,
is a man moving from the garage in
front of the house, holding a long gun
with a wooden stock. The man appears
to move toward Smith, then suddenly
pivots back toward the street, as if to
shoot at a target there.
The man with the gun is turning it
toward the position where Smith last
observed Officer Mandie Rudolph,
whom he knows this gunman has
already shot at once. There is only one
thing left that can be done to stop him.
End-Game
Brent Smith raises his AR-15, looks
through the large rear aperture and puts
the post front sight center on the gunman’s
torso, bringing the trigger straight
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