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CNN Anchor Babe in Shootout in ABQ
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Lynn Russell was attacked going into her Motel 6 room in ABQ. Hubby gets in shoot-out, hit 3 times, but kills the perp.
She is now about 68, and a real beauty. Interesting bio, 18 years on Headline News, detective, black belt, author.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ex-cnn-anchor-lynn-russell-husband-wounded-gun-battle-article-1.2278241
She is now about 68, and a real beauty. Interesting bio, 18 years on Headline News, detective, black belt, author.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ex-cnn-anchor-lynn-russell-husband-wounded-gun-battle-article-1.2278241
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I remember her from the old days of CNN.
Legally carrying? Hmmm...
From Wikipedia:
" Mr. de Caro's persona, described by James Adams in the book, "The Next World War" as "no-nonsense, shoot-from-the-hip-style and rugged, masculine looks" led speaker Gary Sharp of the Mantech International Aegis Research Corporation to describe him at a conference at Duke University's Centre on Law, Ethics and National Security as: "...an entrepreneur, an adventurer that I'd read about in a novel somewhere."
Good odds it was a simple typo. Good odds it was lousy copy checking too before the story went out. Pretty common in journalism these days.
Sure glad they both survived and the animal was dead in the parking lot.
Edit:
But then again I've read the gun the husband retrieved and killed the bad guy with was a 9mm pocket pistol.
Still, you'd think that with all that hifalutin' security/leo background; they'd have picked a better hotel.
I do get a bit leery about motels in questionable parts of town...
I had some conversations with an employer some years back. They had me on the road a lot and wanted to trim some expenses. They put me up in a Super 8 in Huntsville. At that point I really had no choice or say in the matter, other than just not going.
First thing I had to do was go to a Walmart and buy sheets and pillows. What was on that bed, though clean, was pathetically worn down. The pillows were flat like a pancake and they had none better. So I slapped some better stuff on the AMEX Corp Card. Put it on my expense report, figured I'd leave it there when I left.
First night there I am awoken by the commotion in the parking lot. There's a fight, about a half dozen idiots down there from what I could see on the second floor. I call the cops. They had fun breaking it up. There were knives and broken bottles. One guy was thrown on the hood of my rental car. In the morning I found blood on the car, including on the trunk lid. Did not see how that happened.
Next time I told them they had to find me a better neighborhood. So they found a new extended stay sort of motel. First night was fine. Come back after work and there's cop cars and police tape. Armed security guard behind the locked office glass door wearing body armor. Another behind the counter with a shotgun.
So the guy behind the door holds up a sign says "SHOW YOUR ROOM KEY".
I do that and he lets me in. I ask what's going on? He says the place got hit by armed robbers who beat up a guest and there were some shots fired. They were concerned some that got away would return out of revenge.
I got on the phone to the boss and said either I'm going to a real hotel or the airport, which do you prefer?
Lived out of the Huntsville Marriott by the Space Center on and off for months. Always asked for a room looking to the west, so I could see the rockets there. Now that was a pretty view!
No more blood and mayhem though.