Heroic Woman

The female security guard acted bravely while the male guards stood frozen according to shooting victim and combat veteran at New Life. So much for you male supremacists who don't like women taking the lead in church. The pastor credits this woman for saving hundreds of lives by acting decisively. Thank God for this woman. CLICK HERE

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Near an entryway in the church, Bourbonnais came upon the gunman and an armed male church security guard who was there with his gun drawn but not firing, he said.


Bourbonnais said he pleaded with the armed guard to give him his weapon.
"Give me your handgun. I've been in combat, and I'm going to take this guy out," Bourbonnais recalled telling the guard. "He kept yelling, 'Get behind me! Get behind me!' He wouldn't hand me his weapon, but he wouldn't do anything."


There was an additional armed security guard there, another man, who also didn't fire, Bourbonnais said.


Bourbonnais yelled at the gunman to draw his attention, he said.
"First, I called him 'Coward' then I called him 'S---head' " Bourbonnais said. "I probably shouldn't have been saying that in church."


That's when the shooter pointed one of his guns at Bourbonnais and fired, he said.


Bourbonnais ducked behind a hollow, decorative pillar and was hit in the arm by a bullet and fragments of the pillar.


At about that moment, a female guard with a drawn handgun turned a corner and walked toward the gunman and yelled "Surrender!" Bourbonnais said.
The gunman pointed a handgun at the woman and fired three shots, Bourbonnais said. She returned fire and just kept walking toward the gunman pressing off round after round.


The female guard fired off about a dozen shots.
After the gunman went down, Bourbonnais asked the woman, who has only been identified as a volunteer security guard with the church, how she remained so calm and focused.


Bourbonnais said she replied:
"I was asking the Holy Spirit to guide me the entire time."

 

Thanks, Brother. I was not, thank the Lord; but I grieve for those who were. The person who killed and injured was the son of a prominent physician and is said to have "hated Christians". New Life has been through the ringer in the last year. That fellowship needs all of our prayers. I know several members of the church there as associates and friends.

Police say he was the shooter in both Arvada and Colorado Springs. CLICK HERE

 

Denver TV is showing a live press conference from Colo Spgs. The woman, Jeanne Assam is speaking and extended her condolensces to the families of the victims and the gunman. She is telling her story to the media.

She was asked if she is a heroine, and she says the credit goes to God, expecially since the firepower was on the side of the heavily armed gunman.

 

Some here have extended it to political leadership of secular governments. In any case, this young woman is a hero who saved many lives by her decisive action. Sad that the two teen girls lost their lives.

 

It is a mega church that draws lots of attention, especially since the Haggard affair. The female guard is also a church member. The staff had added security yesterday because of the YWAM shootings in Arvada. Who'da thunk the gunman from Arvada would make his way to New Life?

 

Better be totin' 'em in with you. How would you feel if a gunman entered and your gun was out in the car?

 

I totally agree, but them's the facts nowadays.

 

I don't think they had "churches" in David's time.