You could tell when Willeford was interviewed he felt very deeply and that it was tearing him up that he wasn’t able to get there faster. I hope he knows this story.
He hit him when Kelley was reloading, getting ready to shoot Farida Brown, who lived because of Stephen Willeford.
Via SF Gate:
As Farida Brown lay on the floor in the last row of pews in Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church, the 73-year-old woman felt certain she would be the next one killed.
And she almost was.
The gunman had fired numerous rounds into her legs. She was shot four times, but they all struck soft tissue. None of her bones were broken, and no arteries were hit, her son said. But the man was revisiting those he had shot to make sure they were dead and if they weren’t, he was shooting them once more.
Brown’s recollections of the horror that she and others in the church experienced, as told to her son, are among the first offered by one of the 20 wounded Sunday in the rampage that killed 26 churchgoers. The son, David Brown, told her story to reporters Monday, including CNN and The Washington Post.