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Ex-UFC star Tim Kennedy — who’s additionally a U.S. Military Particular Forces sniper — is praising the police sniper who took out a financial institution robber with a close-range kill shot between 2 hostages.
Tim tells TMZ … regulation enforcement did unbelievable work right here to protect harmless lives and defend civilians, and anybody who thinks the sniper put the hostages in danger with such a daring shot has no clue what goes right into a snipe like this.
Bear in mind … video reveals the second a Lee County Sheriff’s Division sniper shoots by means of a pc monitor inside a financial institution, killing a robber who was utilizing 2 hostages as human shields whereas speaking with a negotiator.
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Tim says the sniper used a .308 caliber rifle, and at such shut vary — about 15 to twenty ft — the bullet was all the time going to journey straight by means of the pc monitor and into the perpetrator’s cranium, with loads of vitality to maintain the projectile from ricocheting off monitor in the direction of the hostages.
There have been clearly some tense moments contained in the financial institution, so this wasn’t a straightforward shot … and Tim says the sniper right here did the fitting factor and saved lives.
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