As Michael Irving staggered backward and injured from a gunshot wound, he groped for his “old-time revolver” and braced himself to exact vengeance on the three low-life hoodlums who were ready to terminate his life in Theodore, Alabama. Irving opened his door to confront the invaders, one of whom was attempting to reload a single barrel shotgun.
The facts of what transpired next are what have caused Irving’s story to go viral. This 62-year-old Marine is a hero in every sense of the word. The thugs blasts him as he comes up to the door, Irving explained. That’s when he realized he had just been shot and he could die.
He had no idea who they were or what they looked like. Why him? Why should he be shot? Irving was perplexed. They shot him as he stepped right here to open the door. Right there and that’s when he ran to the cabinet and found an old-time gun behind the coffee, and then he opened the door and smoked them.
Michael Irving, who understood the armed thieves were coming to steal his cancer treatment, realized they weren’t going away after shooting the first assailant, subsequently identified as Joseph Heathcock by cops. The struggle continued as Heathcock slumped to the ground.
The thug was backing up with a single barrel to put another one in when he shot him, Irving recounted. Irving screamed, ‘Oh no no no no,’ so that’s when he opened the door and shot the thug, and he fell down and sorta did the cattywampus and lay down his shotgun and the girl reached over to collect it, and she’s assuming he’s too terrible to reload it and shoot.
Irving threatened her saying its best she leave the gun alone or he’ll murder her. And she grabbed it and was about to take it, when he shot her. Meanwhile, the third individual is over there with a little automatic that is jamming. So he also shot that individual.
According to Michael Irving, two of the suspects fired at him as they left, leaving an injured lady behind. The women were eventually identified as Chasatie Dulabhan and Casey Ray Gann by cops. Irving claims he shot one of the escaping men in the buttocks again as they escaped. He didn’t want to kill them, he explained.
The two fleeing suspects barely made it approximately two miles before phoning for aid while bleeding from their gunshot wounds inside a Dollar General Store. The horrible occurrence had left Irving rattled. It astonished him as well, but when someone shoots and tries to kill one, it only wakes up the dragon, he explained. He discovered that while serving in the Marine Corps. One acts and responds before one is terrified. Always respond and do it before one gets terrified.
Heathcock, Dulabhan, and Gann were arrested after being treated for gunshot wounds. Michael Irving, on the other hand, is being praised as a local hero for protecting himself. He was outnumbered, outgunned, and had been fighting colon cancer for two years. He claims that you should never meddle with a Marine. Most individuals would concur that he has demonstrated that opinion to be entirely correct.
