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Posted: 06 Nov 2009 21:29 pm
Fort Hood, Texas (CNN) -- The police officer who ended the Fort Hood massacre by shooting the suspect is known as the enforcer on her street, a "tough woman" who patrolled her neighborhood and once stopped burglars at her house.

"If you come in, I'm going to shoot," Kimberly Munley told the would-be intruders last year.

It was Munley who arrived quickly Thursday at the scene of the worst massacre at an Army base in U.S. history, where 13 people were killed. She confronted the alleged gunman, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, and shot him four times. Munley was wounded in the exchange.

That's just like her, friends and family say.

"I just felt more protected knowing she was on my street," neighbor Erin Houston said.

Munley, the mother of a 3-year-old girl, lives on a street where a lot of homes are vacant because so many residents are deployed at war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"We sleep a lot safer knowing she's on the block," said Sgt. William Barbrow, another neighbor.

When Bryan Munley heard that his sister-in-law thwarted the alleged gunman in a shootout, he wasn't surprised.

"There's nothing that stands in her way. It completely makes sense that she did what she did," he said from Downingtown, Pennsylvania. "It was amazing. Without her, there would have been a lot more people killed."

Munley, 34, is being treated for her wounds. Her father, former Carolina Beach, North Carolina, Mayor Dennis Barbour, said his daughter is doing well.

"Her efforts were superb," said Col. Steven Braverman, the base hospital commander.

Lt. Gen. Bob Cone, Fort Hood's commanding general, described Munley as a "trained, active first responder" who acted quickly after she "just happened to encounter the gunman."

"Really a pretty amazing and aggressive performance by this police officer," he said.

Cone said Munley and her partner responded "very quickly" to the scene -- reportedly in about three minutes.

On social networking sites, she was lauded for her actions. One Facebook fan page was called "Sgt. Kimberly Munley: A Real American Hero" and had more than 1,400 members.

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"My prayers for a fast recovery as well as my sincere thanks of an outstanding job," one person wrote. One woman added, "U got some brass balls, girl ... u r my hero!!!!"

Authorities say Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, opened fire at a military processing center at Fort Hood on Thursday, killing 13 and wounding 30 others.

Cone was asked on CNN's "American Morning" whether Munley's shots brought down the assailant and stopped him from shooting.

"That's correct," Cone said. "The critical factor here was her quick response to the situation."

Bryan Munley said Munley is married to his brother, Staff Sgt. Matthew Munley. He said Matthew was in Downingtown, outside Philadelphia, visiting his family when the shootings happened. The couple, married since 2006, have a 3-year-old daughter named Jayden.

She is definitely a tough woman.

Matthew was at Fort Bragg on Friday, trying to get a flight to Texas to see his wife.

A page on Twitter lists the name "Kim Munley" of Killeen, Texas, near Ford Hood. It has a photo of a female police officer with the name "Kim Munley" on her uniform.

Its bio blurb has particular resonance in the aftermath of the incident.

"I live a good life....a hard one, but I go to sleep peacefully at night knowing that I may have made a difference in someone's life."



http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/06/fort.hood.munley/index.html
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Posted: 06 Nov 2009 23:44 pm
Equal opportunity for women was a leftist concept.
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Post subject: Re: Kim Munley, An American Hero
Posted: 07 Nov 2009 01:11 am

happy_san wrote

Equal opportunity for women was a leftist concept.


...not a fundamentalist Islamic one.
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Post subject: Re: Kim Munley, An American Hero
Posted: 07 Nov 2009 01:27 am

happy_san wrote

Equal opportunity for women was a leftist concept.


why even go there?
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Posted: 07 Nov 2009 07:23 am

happy_san wrote

Equal opportunity for women was a leftist concept.


Equal opportunity for women is a Christian concept. Galatians 3:27-28
"As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus."
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Posted: 07 Nov 2009 07:25 am
Kim Munley, An American Hero



Hanging out with Dirks Bentley.
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Posted: 07 Nov 2009 09:04 am
Great thread. It won't be popular.

Great job Hoyle.

"One (wo)man of courage makes a majority." -Andrew Jackson.
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Posted: 07 Nov 2009 09:13 am

happy_san wrote

Equal opportunity for women was a leftist concept.


Congratulations! You took a thread about a hero, one of the few bright spots in this whole tragedy, and turned it political after the 1st post! But why stop there... Let's find out how she voted the last election, or how she feels about abortion, health care, gun rights, the stimulus, etc...

Why do some people try so hard to be such jerks?
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Post subject: Re: Kim Munley, An American Hero
Posted: 07 Nov 2009 09:15 am

Hoyle wrote

Kim Munley, An American Hero



Hanging out with Dirks Bentley.


+1

Hoping for her to have a speedy recovery!
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Posted: 07 Nov 2009 09:46 am

happy_san wrote

Equal opportunity for women was a leftist concept.


Yeah, and I'm sure it took a conservative who stood up for gun owners' rights to teach her how to shoot. Wink
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Posted: 08 Nov 2009 21:18 pm
tar,

You know what's worse than one screamin' pig caught in the fence?
Two. Your commin' through loud and clear. Wink

Nine whole posts for a hero.

#10 is a bump. Get well soon!
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Post subject: Kimberly Munley update
Posted: 08 Nov 2009 21:46 pm
Kimberly Munley update

Police Sergeant Kimberly Munley awoke from surgery and asked, “Did anybody die?”

That’s according to her doctor, as reported by the London Telegraph.

She reportedly put four bullets in Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who kileld 13 people and wounded 30 others at Ford Hood.

Her grandmother, Monirie Metz, told the newspaper: “Kim doesn’t want be called a hero. She’s worried about everyone else right now.”

Her former police partner, Shaun Appler, told the newspaper of an incident in which she saved his life: “I was arresting a subject and we ended up rolling down a hill. My flashlight went one way and my radio went another and the suspect ended up on my back. Kim showed up a short time after the fight began and was able to jump on the suspect’s back. She’s powerful and she got him off me and we were able to arrest the guy.”
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