Zero and Ohio sent us links to the story of Second Lieutenant Joshua Nelson of the West Virginia Air National Guard who made a trip to Walmart to pick up some fish hooks, but it turned into something he’d never expected when he heard a woman in a near aisle call for help;<\/p>\n
“I could tell she was stressed and she sounded frightened,” said Nelson. “I looked into the aisle, and this young man had a knife to a woman’s stomach.”<\/p>\n
According to police reports, the young man was mad at his mother, who he had a knife to, because she wouldn’t buy him a gun. Nelson told his wife Brittany to go alert the store manager and call the police.<\/p>\n
Nelson, who has a concealed weapons permit stepped up beside the woman.<\/p>\n
“I put my hand on my pistol where he’d notice, and then I stepped in between them,” said Nelson. “I kept demanding he hand me the knife. I wanted him to see only one option. As I was standing beside that lady, I felt like I was responsible for her life. I was going to do whatever I had to do to protect her.”<\/p>\n
Then, according to the police report, Nelson went from trying to stop a murder to trying to stop a suicide when the assailant turned the knife on himself.<\/p>\n
Nelson pointed to his training and the Air National Guard and previously in the Marine Corps as helping him talk the young man down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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