Remember, she already knew - even before she spotted him driving - that he had stabbed an innocent bystander at the market. …while pulling his knife hand back, ready to thrust at the deputy.
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But here’s a close-up anyway, still clickable to make it even larger.Īlso notice she is behind her door: she got out and backed up very quickly. Ruis’s face was blurred in the video by the sheriff’s office.Įven in this still frame from a video stream, it’s quite apparent even without blowing it up that Ruis has weapons: a knife and what was later revealed to be a screwdriver in his right hand, and (as we’ll see in a moment) a Phillips head screwdriver in his left. This is taken from her body camera, so yes: those are her arms out in front of her with her pistol in a two-handed grip, just as she was trained. The car in the background is what he was driving, so clearly he has walked ever closer to the deputy even as she has ordered him to drop his weapons while she has him at gunpoint. …Ruis is still sauntering, but getting dangerously close. Since I made that sequence graphic, I obtained larger images, so you can still click to see them even larger - on a computer and maybe a tablet, at least! Presumably the knife was the same one used to stab the older man in the dairy store. This deputy had to make some extraordinarily quick decisions, and as far as I can see she did everything right.įirst, a note: the source article I used for the story did say Ruis was “holding two knives in one hand and a screwdriver in the other when he went after the deputy.” That was later corrected to two screwdrivers and a knife. But I wanted to go through this in more detail to point out a few things to show just how intense this situation was. Since the newsletter can include graphics (this being the 21st century and all), I illustrated it with the sequence shown here. Pretty much the same with the slug, but I thought I’d use an innocuous one for this to be sure I don’t signal what’s to come in any way. I’m not “really” satisfied with the tagline, but with a story that intense, I think the tagline ends up being irrelevant. (Note: the first sentence was corrected after publication to make it clear which man was hospitalized.) Breaking it Down (RC/Lansing State Journal) …Let me guess: Ruis was brain damaged from having to think about breathing through a mask.
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“She had to use deadly force” to save her own life, said Sheriff Tom Reich. The shooting was clearly recorded both by the deputy’s body camera, and a security camera at a house. The deputy, who has not been named, barely escaped injury. Sean Ernest Ruis, 43, a state employee, died in surgery later. The deputy, who is a 22-year veteran, was able to rack the slide to get the weapon cleared, and opened fire again: it took 10 shots to stop the man - and he still wasn’t killed.
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He was still able to grab her gun, but she kept him from taking it. The deputy backed away and ordered that he drop his weapons, but the man kept charging and she opened fire. The suspect got out of his car, slowly walked toward the deputy, and then rushed her holding two knives in one hand, and a screwdriver in the other. A few miles away, an Eaton County Sheriff’s deputy spotted the car and pulled him over. The assailant ran, and store employees were able to describe him and his vehicle to police. When a shopper at Quality Dairy in Dimondale, Mich., was told by an employee he couldn’t be in the store without wearing a mask, the man stabbed a 77-year-old customer who wasn’t even part of the confrontation the older man was hospitalized in serious condition.