> 3) Does anyone actually have any evidence that the shooter saw Nick Meli hiding behind a pillar with a gun? > He said himself he ran from the pillar to a nearby store, it's not like he stood there aiming at the shooter until > the shooter committed suicide. Maybe the shooter really *did* kill himself because cops were closing in. Cops > were running into the mall less than a minute after the call went over the air. It is possible this guy is just > talking himself up because he wants to be a cop himself one day and really had nothing to do with the shooter > stopping himself. If we are going to consider the national anti-gun media conspiracy angle, we also need to > keep the false hero complex conspiracy angle in mind.
Also, if you look at the public stuff on his facebook profile, he may have a pro-gun agenda that is slanting his narrative towards "armed citizen stops spree killer." Just something to keep in mind.