TUCSON, Arizona — Police are investigating the circumstances behind a shooting this morning on board Amtrak’s Sunset Limited.
A railroad representative confirms to Trains that the eastbound passenger train, destination New Orleans, arrived in Tucson, at 7:40 a.m. The representative says there was a “shooting incident” on board the train, though it is not clear from media reports if the train was stopped or in motion when the shooting occurred.
Tucson’s KOLD-TV reports that police arrested one person in the shooting while Tuscon.com quotes one passenger saying he was caught in a crossfire between two shooters.
Amtrak says none of the 11 train crew or 137 passenger on board were injured and that passengers were taken to the train station.
(Hit send too soon) Story was found at Under Western Skies Posted by: Brad Nixon | October 21, 2019
Back in 1881, U.S. Marshall Wyatt Earp, the infamous Doc Holliday, and some number of men stepped off the train at Tucson, Arizona.
Wyatt and the boys had just come from the shootout at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, south of Tucson. They were bound for Los Angeles, escorting Wyatt’s brother, Virgil, who’d been shot in that encounter. Already dead was another Earp, Morgan, and some number of other men.
Accounts of that episode in the history of the Wild West vary. None of them reflect much credit on the bloody and vicious America of the day.
Although he was a duly licensed law enforcement official, Wyatt was not one to stand on ceremony regarding points of law. He dispensed his own form of frontier justice, and didn’t always allow “due process” to take its course.
Disembarking at the Southern Pacific station in Tucson, Wyatt got word that Frank Stilwell, one of the men suspected of shooting both his brothers, was nearby. Wyatt and his posse chased down Stilwell and shot him dead on the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks near the station.
From some other source I understood the search to be routine, and the suspect started shooting first. (Please confirm or deny this.)
I remember taking the SW Chief from LA to Chicago some years ago and the police had dogs on the ramps at LAUPT because lots of traffickers used the Chief to move their stuff inland.
Thank you George for your comment. With increasing rights to carry concealable weapons and increasing ability to plastic print weapons , the balance between confronting drug traffickers and protecting innocent bystanders needs to be rethought. This is not to say laws should not be enforced, just that tactics should be different given increasing potential and actual violence. After all you do not hear of many captures on airplanes but captures occur after folks get off in the airports
Overlooked in this tragedy are the passengers and crew of the train who were placed in harm’s way by the decision of law enforcement to confront the suspects when and where they did. I have yet to read any account where the suspects posed a threat to the passengers or crew prior to being confronted by law enforcement. Surely another plan could have been formulated to avoid placing innocent people in danger. And what happened to the evacuated passengers whose train trip was abruptly terminated? Their belongings would have to remain on the train while an investigation was conducted, and all they have is an 800 phone number to call?
So Charles isn’t your off topic comment synonymous with the Orange Julius inciting a mob to storm the US Capital????
A lot of drugs come in by air & water dropped for their distributors in the US.
There is more. The fact that 2 DEA agents are involved indicates at least surveillance and maybe capture mission. I seem to remember years ago in Trains, comments about drug trafficking using trains. Given our border mess, this event is not surprising.
One DEA Agent dead, one DEA Agent and one Tucson police officer shot but still alive, the shooter was killed after locking himself in an Amtrak restroom, and a second subject was arrested.
Oh right George Chicago was just in yesterdays news. Would you give me the total shooting incidents on Amtrak so far?
I didn’t realize it had been daily, I guess there are so many it doesn’t make our news on your daily basis.
Where is Amtrak train now still at the Station or Eastbound to Texas??
Transitdocs.com shows it arrived at Phoenix and NOT departing
https://asm.transitdocs.com/train/2021/10/3/2
Phoenix? The train doesn’t go to Phoenix.
Another day in America REALLY. I’ve apparently missed all the daily articles about shootings involving Amtrak trains.
Maybe you missed them when you were wandering around in Chicago dodging bullets. Of course, there was the shooting on the platform at Chicago Union Station.
VR railcam feed is down now. Hope they nailed the shooter.
Jessie James wanna’ be?
Going to be kind of difficult for the shooter to plead not guilty. He’s captured on the VR railcam standing in the doorway banging away at a K9 officer.
Ho Hum, just another day in America, 2021.
Sad, but true…
Speaking of Arizona, leftist loons (including men) barging into a woman’s room with video cameras. Followed by a near riot on an airplane. The President of the United States praising them until he was told to walk it back. We’re rapidly becoming a banana republic.
Still at TUS as of 2:25PM ET. View at https://virtualrailfan.com/free/.