Kimberly Munley, the police officer who shot Major Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood. With country singer Dierks Bentley. Photograph: TwitterShe Stood Ground, Even As Bullets Struck Her -- Houston Chronicle
Base officer’s training kicked in when it counted.
FORT HOOD — However complete her training or rounded her experience, Sgt. Kimberly Munley may be forgiven if she never expected a scene quite like the one Thursday, when she found herself in a courtyard facing an Army major apparently gone berserk and a body count that would keep rising unless she stopped him.
Two quick shots from her Beretta 9 mm — pop, pop — and now Munley had the attention of the gunman. She had missed. He was angry. Now his Belgian-made 5.7 mm pistol was pointed not at the already wounded soldier he was chasing, but at Munley, a civilian police officer hired to help keep order at the sprawling base.
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My Comment: My closest friend is also 5' 2" tall .... and she can be a ball of fire when she gets going.
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