Following up on the first-person account of the Fort Hood shooting, it looks like the New York Times is finally coming around to the conclusion that the female police officer Sergent Munley may not be the sharpshooting hero the Times thought she was.
This new take on events, with Munley already gunned down while the shooter was still reloading to then be taken out by Senior Sgt. Mark Todd is confirmed by an anonymous witness who tells a story an awful lot like the ROFASIX one:
“…when Sergeant Munley came around the corner of a smaller building. Major Hasan wheeled on her and shot her several times, the witness said. It was unclear whether she squeezed off a shot or not, but she fell over backward, disabled with wounds in her legs and one of her wrists, the witness said.”
The Times also notes:
“Public affairs officials also declined to make Chuck Medley, the director of emergency services at the post, available for questions. It was Mr. Medley, who oversees the post’s civilian police and fire departments, who gave the first account of how Sergeant Munley stopped the gunman.”
It was Medley who was the sole source for the New York Times’ earlier story titled “She Ran to Gunfire, and Ended It,” the story in which the Times basically crowned Munley the Hero of Fort Hood. It was this story that everyone latched on to in the elevation of Munley to sole hero status.
So now it appears that the ROFASIX account may be true.
This new account, close to the ROFASIX one, still down not account for the Mother Jones version.