Post New Article

At least 11 stabbed at Traverse City Walmart
in terrifying scene before armed shopper
helped detain knife-wielding madman

Original Article

Posted By: mc squared, 7/27/2025 12:01:58 PM

At least 11 people were stabbed in a bloody scene inside a Michigan Walmart Saturday night — causing terrified shoppers and employees to flee — before a brave armed citizen helped detain the knife-wielding maniac, according to police, witnesses and harrowing video. The terror unfolded around 5 p.m. when the alleged 42-year-old male attacker began randomly stabbing shoppers with a “standard” folding knife in various sections of the big-box chain store in Traverse City, about 255 miles northwest of Detroit, Grand Traverse County Sheriff Michael Shea said. [snip] Video of the chaotic scene showed the unidentified suspect surrounded by shouting bystanders, including the armed good Samaritan.

Comments:

This is the only report I've seen that one of the people who stopped the madman was armed. Too bad more weren't

Post Reply

Reminder: “WE ARE A SALON AND NOT A SALOON”

Your thoughts, comments, and ideas are always welcome here. But we ask you to please be mindful and respectful. Threatening or crude language doesn't persuade anybody and makes the conversation less enjoyable for fellow L.Dotters.


Reply 1 - Posted by: bighambone 7/27/2025 12:12:22 PM (No. 1983232)
There has got to be a reason why they have not released the perpetrator’s name? Any quesses?
19 people like this.

Reply 2 - Posted by: Vaquero45 7/27/2025 12:24:23 PM (No. 1983234)
The press won’t report on the armed citizen. First of all, they don’t want to admit that legally carried concealed handguns deter crime. Secondly, the guy with the gun doesn’t fit their template: he’s black.
21 people like this.

Reply 3 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 7/27/2025 12:29:19 PM (No. 1983236)
Good recap, Anna. But the attacker was not an alleged attacker. He WAS the attacker. Very astute thinking, #1 and #2.
16 people like this.

Reply 4 - Posted by: bpl40 7/27/2025 12:31:28 PM (No. 1983237)
Gun death statistics should always be reported with numbers of how many lives were saved by use or presence of firearms in the hands of law abiding citizens.
11 people like this.

Reply 5 - Posted by: earlybird 7/27/2025 12:32:12 PM (No. 1983238)
From what I remember of Traverse City from years ago when I went though there to Northport Point, this kind of crime there seems so unlikely. But it wouldn't have had a Walmart back then, either.
6 people like this.

Reply 6 - Posted by: sunset 7/27/2025 12:37:27 PM (No. 1983241)
Daily Mail article down below provides a photo of the attacker surrendering to another guy training a gun on him.
6 people like this.

Reply 7 - Posted by: mc squared 7/27/2025 12:59:49 PM (No. 1983252)
Thank you #6. The attacker looks white and the armed hero is black.
13 people like this.

Reply 8 - Posted by: earlybird 7/27/2025 1:50:13 PM (No. 1983262)
That Daily Mail article posted down the page shows the perp facing the black man with the gun. Perp looks Hispanic. Not understanding English would explain his not immediately complying with orders to get on the ground. His rampage was in the pharmav area of the store.
5 people like this.

Reply 9 - Posted by: DVC 7/27/2025 2:19:40 PM (No. 1983277)
Re #1, the one pic I saw showed a scruffy guy, looking like a bum, not obviously middle eastern appearance, nut not all of them look it. My guess is a psycho bum without any ID and not able or perhaps not willing to give any info.
3 people like this.

Reply 10 - Posted by: Venturer 7/27/2025 2:41:08 PM (No. 1983293)
When seconds count ,Police are only minutes away. Plan on protecting yourself.
7 people like this.

Reply 11 - Posted by: DVC 7/27/2025 7:00:11 PM (No. 1983373)
A round of applause for the 'armed shopper'. Well done, sir. Well done.
9 people like this.

Reply 12 - Posted by: DVC 7/27/2025 11:26:49 PM (No. 1983433)
It turns out the armed shopper is a former Marine. Semper Fi, man......Semper Fi.
5 people like this.

Reply 13 - Posted by: DE01A13 7/28/2025 9:28:58 AM (No. 1983537)
Number 12, there are no "former" Marines. Once a Marine, Always a Marine! Semper Fidelis!
0 people like this.

Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "mc squared"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
Most Recent Articles posted by mc squared"
Police Identify Four Suspects in Cincinnati
Beatings as Democrat Mayor Finally Responds
to Brutal Attacks
3 replies
Posted by mc squared 7/28/2025 6:58:46 PM Post Reply
Cincinnati police have identified at least four suspects in the brutal beatings of a white man and white woman by a mostly Black mob Friday night in the downtown area of the city, according to the local Fraternal Order of Police and Fox News. Videos and screen images of the attack went viral over the weekend, drawing comments from Ohio native Vice President J.D. Vance, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights division Harmeet Dhillon who said she is monitoring the case and Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH). (TGP report on Vance’s comments at this link.)
Britain on the Brink 9 replies
Posted by mc squared 7/28/2025 9:12:00 AM Post Reply
Four decades ago I was sitting having a cup of tea in Bramerton Street in Chelsea, just off the King's Road. It was the home of Alan Jay Lerner, author of Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, Gigi, Camelot, and much else. Alan was not as wealthy as he'd been two decades earlier, because he'd carelessly acquired seven ex-wives and was in the umpteenth year of a long-running dispute with the IRS. But I couldn't understand why, as a man awash in Oscars and Tonys and whatnot, he chose to live not in New York but in London, {snip}Britain's government has decided to lower the voting age to sixteen.
Debit cards given to NYC’s summer youth
job program tied to $17 M ATM fraud scam: sources
8 replies
Posted by mc squared 7/27/2025 12:23:00 PM Post Reply
NYC-issued debit cards meant to pay participants working in a summer youth program were instead used by scammers who nabbed $17 million over a three-day period earlier this month, sources told The Post. The scam — the subject of an ongoing fraud probe — led to ATMs across the Big Apple being banged for big bucks from July 11 to July 13, with the cash ending up in the wrong hands rather than kids and young adults in the Summer Youth Employment Program, officials said.[snip] However, an error allowed the cards to access massive payments of up $40,000 per ATM.
At least 11 stabbed at Traverse City Walmart
in terrifying scene before armed shopper
helped detain knife-wielding madman
13 replies
Posted by mc squared 7/27/2025 12:01:58 PM Post Reply
At least 11 people were stabbed in a bloody scene inside a Michigan Walmart Saturday night — causing terrified shoppers and employees to flee — before a brave armed citizen helped detain the knife-wielding maniac, according to police, witnesses and harrowing video. The terror unfolded around 5 p.m. when the alleged 42-year-old male attacker began randomly stabbing shoppers with a “standard” folding knife in various sections of the big-box chain store in Traverse City, about 255 miles northwest of Detroit, Grand Traverse County Sheriff Michael Shea said. [snip] Video of the chaotic scene showed the unidentified suspect surrounded by shouting bystanders, including the armed good Samaritan.
Maine Rep. Deqa Dhalac Says Her Goal Is
to Help 'Our Country of Somalia'
23 replies
Posted by mc squared 7/26/2025 1:31:07 PM Post Reply
Maine Representative Deqa Dhalac (D), a Somali immigrant turned state legislator, recently stirred controversy by declaring that her priority is developing “our country of Somalia” rather than serving American interests. Dhalac’s admission exposes a troubling allegiance to foreign priorities at a time of growing concern over immigrant loyalty and national identity. During a recent appearance on ABC News, Dhalac faced some questioning about her intent, and others defending her focus on supporting global communities while serving locally. Dhalac was born in Mogadishu, Somalia,
Feds probe flight risks at NYPD’s Aviation
Unit as ‘incompetent’ commander booted
after safety failures
7 replies
Posted by mc squared 7/26/2025 12:18:23 PM Post Reply
The head of the NYPD’s Aviation Unit was booted from the elite squad this week after trying to block the feds from probing his dangerous mishaps, The Post has learned. Aviation’s Commanding Officer Winston Faison was an “incompetent boob” who had numerous breaches in safety as he attempted to make himself the unit’s head helicopter instructor, whistleblowers revealed. When FAA inspectors made a surprise visit to the base on July 16 because of internal complaints to the agency, Faison flipped his lid, police sources said. “Do not give them anything!’” he barked at his cops, an insider said. “Who let them on the base?”
AOC broke House rules to attend Met Gala
with beau Riley Roberts, is told to pay
additional $2,700 for ‘Tax The Rich’
gown, other accessories
9 replies
Posted by mc squared 7/25/2025 1:17:55 PM Post Reply
Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez flouted House ethics rules by accepting more than $3,700 in rented apparel and other gifts for her notorious appearance at the 2021 Met Gala — including a glitzy gown emblazoned with “Tax The Rich” in blood-red letters and a free ticket for her then-boyfriend Riley Roberts — but paying fewer than $1,000 for the goodies. The House Ethics Committee faulted the Bronx and Queens “Squad” member for not complying with its regulation on gifts and improperly giving Roberts a free ride to the annual charity event put on by Vogue grande dame Anna Wintour — but said it wouldn’t sanction her further.
Watch Fox News' Greg Gutfeld Obliterate
His Co-Host Over This Take on the Russian
Collusion Hoax
12 replies
Posted by mc squared 7/25/2025 11:59:06 AM Post Reply
I’m going to be nice to Jessica Tarlov in the sense that she’s too smart to peddle this talking point. She must know it’s brutally dishonest, but she said it yesterday and got her head bitten off by Greg Gutfeld. The two co-hosts on The Five got into it over the recent document dumps by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, which show that Barack Obama, John Brennan, James Comey, James Clapper, and others manufactured intelligence to promote a fake narrative about Russian collusion to destroy Donald Trump. Tarlov thought it was ridiculous that we’re talking about Hillary Clinton’s emails
New Yorker stabbed in neck by African
migrants during Italian vacation: ‘It’s
a playground for terror, for the vicious’
9 replies
Posted by mc squared 7/19/2025 10:54:38 AM Post Reply
A Staten Island native came face to face with the worst of Italy’s migrant crisis this week when he was nearly killed while vacationing in Milan. Nick Pellegrino was attacked on a train Tuesday by a pair of North African migrants, who stabbed him in the neck with a 5-inch knife before making off with his luggage and jewelry — leaving him to die in a pool of his own blood in his family’s homeland, which has experienced a surge in criminal migrants over the past four years. “With these very loose, lefty immigration laws, these immigrants come into these countries and they’re running amok, trying to murder people.
Warren: Mamdani’s Gov’t Grocery Store
Idea ‘Has Had Some Real Successes
32 replies
Posted by mc squared 7/18/2025 10:39:16 AM Post Reply
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said that the government grocery store plan from New York City mayoral candidate Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D) is “a new and fresh plan for New York City. But it’s been tried in other cities around the country and has had some real successes.” Warren stated that Mamdani “said, we’ve got a problem with entire food deserts where people can’t get access to grocery stores. He said, I’d like to take a look at whether or not we can have some kind of — like we do on military bases — you have some kind of support from the city government
The Democratic Civil War Has Begun —
and Obama Pulled the Trigger
17 replies
Posted by mc squared 7/17/2025 11:58:19 AM Post Reply
Last week, Barack Obama gave some advice to his party, and it’s astonishing how quickly his words turned into a self-inflicted political wound. He was once hailed as the Democrat Party’s unifying figure, but Obama’s recent scolding of his own party’s base didn’t just flop — it sparked a backlash even his defenders can’t ignore. As PJ Media previously reported, during a ritzy gathering of party elites in New Jersey, Obama dismissed the rampant frustration among liberals, telling them to show “a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions.” "And it's going to require Democrats to just toughen up,” he said.
Leftist Utopia: Labour Government Kills
Voter ID Law, Slashes Voting Age to 16
22 replies
Posted by mc squared 7/17/2025 11:07:46 AM Post Reply
Labour government announces wrecking amendment to Britain’s Voter ID law by removing photo identification requirement, and slashes voting age from 18 to 16. Under international and UK law, a child is any person below the age of 18, but by the time of the next UK General Election those age 16 and 17-years-old will be legally allowed to vote for their next Member of Parliament and won’t need photo-ID to do it, the Labour government has announced. Angela Rayner, Sir Keir Starmer’s deputy prime minister, heralded the change by saying “For too long public trust in our democracy has been damaged and faith in our institutions has been allowed to decline”,
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
‘The Simpsons’ Creator Predicts ‘Kids
Across America Will Liberate Their Republican
Parents from the Cult of MAGA’
44 replies
Posted by Dreadnought 7/27/2025 4:44:38 PM Post Reply
The Simpsons creator Matt Groening sees a moment sometime in the cartooning future when “kids across America will liberate their Republican parents from the cult of MAGA” adding “Here’s how to do it. Delete Fox News.” Variety reports Groening made his forecast while musing on future content for shows of the Emmy-winning production and how they may meld into reality and predict the future, saying: The Simpsons’ predicts kids across America will liberate their Republican parents from the cult of MAGA. And here’s how you do it. Grab the TV remote, go to menu, go to controls, vertical controls, look for channel list and delete Fox News.
Florida county school board chair deletes
comments celebrating Hulk Hogan's death
as 'one less MAGA'
33 replies
Posted by NorthernDog 7/27/2025 9:20:10 PM Post Reply
Florida county school board chair Sarah Rockwell apologized for Facebook comments celebrating legendary wrestler Hulk Hogan’s death on Thursday as "one less MAGA" in the world. "Oh did Hulk die? I didn’t even know. Good. One less MAGA in the world," Rockwell’s since-deleted comment read. In a follow-up comment, Rockwell added, "[H]e worked with the McMahons to union bust professional wrestling. [H]e’s never been a good guy. I feel absolutely nothing about his death." After her comments went viral on social media, Rockwell deleted and apologized for them on her official school board Facebook account. ''A few days ago, I
Brutal downtown brawl leaves victims bloodied
as Cincinnati police launch investigation
23 replies
Posted by Mizz Fixxit 7/28/2025 12:08:34 PM Post Reply
Police in Cincinnati are investigating a viral video that shows what appears to be a violent brawl in the downtown section of the city. The fight happened on Friday night, between Elm and Fourth Streets, according to FOX 19 in Cincinnati. Several videos of the fight have made the rounds on social media. A man in a white t-shirt appears to be shoved to the ground by two other men and mercilessly beaten. The video then shows others in the crowd, women included, joining in on the beating. The man's head appears to be stomped multiple times.
Cancel the 2028 L.A. Olympics 21 replies
Posted by Hazymac 7/28/2025 11:58:11 AM Post Reply
This show must not go on. It’s time, right now, for greater Los Angeles to halt all preparations to host the 2028 Summer Olympics. Let’s turn over these Games to a world city better positioned to host them. Not because Angelenos don’t love the Olympics. We are a proud Olympic city, shaped by the 1932 and 1984 Games. In normal times, the city’s incomparable international connections, entertainment assets and sports facilities would make us the perfect host for what LA 28 chair Casey Wasserman calls “the largest peacetime gathering in the history of the world.” But it’s no longer peacetime in Los Angeles. This event is now too dangerous for California.
Deflect, Distract, but Game’s Up! 19 replies
Posted by Mercedes44 7/27/2025 5:16:27 AM Post Reply
The great Satchel Paige once said, “Don’t look back -- something may be gaining on you.” Well, I think for Barack Obama and his cohort, something is gaining on them, and so, too, I believe it is happening now for those who engaged with Jeffrey Epstein in his illicit activities. Stuff kept hidden by the wrongdoers in the Obama and Biden administrations is coming to light, and you can expect they will amp up their deflection and distraction moves to keep the focus off what they did.
E.U. Cuts Aid to Ukraine Over Corruption Concerns 18 replies
Posted by sunset 7/27/2025 3:39:52 AM Post Reply
President Volodymyr Zelensky’s anticorruption policies have already provoked Ukraine’s first antigovernment protests since the Russian invasion in 2022. Now, it seems, they may cost the country a portion of its foreign aid from the European Union, in a clear rebuke from the bloc, once a staunch ally. The European Union said on Friday that it would withhold 1.5 billion euros, or $1.7 billion, from an overall fund of 4.5 billion euros whose disbursement is dependent on achieving good governance standards and that can’t be used for military purchases. James Wasserstrom, an American anticorruption expert, said in an interview that “the luster is definitely coming off” Mr. Zelensky’s wartime leadership
Obama Phone’ Scam: Florida CEO Headed
to Prison, Must Pay $128 Million Fine
After Defrauding Government
17 replies
Posted by 4250Luis 7/28/2025 6:35:03 AM Post Reply
The owner of a Florida telecommunications company will spend the next five years in prison and his firm must pay a hefty fine regarding an “Obama phone” scam. Q Link Wireless LLC and its owner, identified as CEO Issa Asad, previously pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud and steal federal funds from the Lifeline program that began in the 1980s, Fox News reported Sunday. The program offers subsidized cellphone services to lower-income people. In 2012, a video emerged of a protester outside a Mitt Romney event who claimed her neighbors received an “Obama phone,” Breitbart News reported at the time.
Senate Republicans Continue Harry Reid's
Nominee Blockade
17 replies
Posted by J. Arthur Brown 7/27/2025 1:56:22 PM Post Reply
Harry Reid, the former Democrat leader of the U.S. Senate, left the Senate in 2017 and died in 2021, but his ghost must still be haunting the chamber. How else can one explain why the Republican majority is continuing the blockade Reid initiated back in 2007 to prevent a Republican President (George W. Bush) from using recess appointments to get around the various roadblocks Reid put in place to delay confirming Bush's nominees?
EV Update: Will The Market Survive The
Expiration Of The Federal Tax Credit?
17 replies
Posted by zephyrgirl 7/27/2025 1:22:26 PM Post Reply
How quickly things change. It was barely more than a year ago that climate activists and federal bureaucrats thought they had maneuvered the internal combustion engine (ICE) automobile to the brink of extinction. ICE vehicles had become like dinosaurs, inferior to their new competitors the EVs, and therefore headed for the scrap heap of history. Customers were flocking to the trendy new EVs, which were seeing rapidly rising sales. And the all-powerful federal bureaucracy was going to give the final push to put ICE vehicles out of their misery. On June 7, 2024 President Biden’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Son of Attempted Trump Assassin Sentenced
to Seven Years for Child Pornography [WATCH]
16 replies
Posted by earlybird 7/27/2025 8:07:23 PM Post Reply
Oran Routh, the son of Ryan Routh, who is currently in federal custody on charges related to an attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate, was sentenced Friday morning to seven years in federal prison for possession of child pornography involving a minor under the age of 12.(snip)Investigators discovered an SD card in the device containing a large cache of illegal material. “A review of the SD card located in Device-1 revealed that it contained hundreds of child pornography files,” prosecutors wrote in the criminal complaint,
Major Shipping Line Matson Closes the
Hatch on Transport of Electrical Vehicles
15 replies
Posted by Hazymac 7/28/2025 9:35:02 AM Post Reply
Matson Inc., a major ocean cargo carrier in the trans-Pacific trade, announced this week that they have decided to stop carrying electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles on their ships, effective immediately. Some in the industry were shocked and upset. Matson, after all, has never had a ship sink as a result of an EV fire. What are they worried about? But there have been three especially severe EV fires on cargo ships in just the past three years: the Felicity Ace in 2022, the Fremantle Highway in 2023, and most recently, the Morning Midas in 2025, each fire destroying thousands of vehicles each along with much or all of the vessels.
Trump strikes ‘biggest deal ever made’
with EU: Europeans will pay $1.6T, accept
15% tariffs after meeting with prez
15 replies
Posted by Skinnydip 7/27/2025 4:06:55 PM Post Reply
It took just 75 minutes for President Trump to get major concessions from the European Union. That’s how long he and European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen were away from the cameras. When they returned, Trump was triumphant. Europe agreed to buy $750 billion in American energy products, invest $600 billion in new money in the US, purchase additional US military equipment and drop key tariffs on American goods, according to the terms of the preliminary agreement.
Post New Article