The “Good Samaritan” being hailed as a hero for taking out a mass shooter at an Indiana shopping mall was allowed to carry a firearm in public under the state’s newly enacted constitutional carry law.
Police said Monday that 22-year-old Elisjsha [sic] Dicken of Seymour, Indiana, shot and killed the suspect less than two minutes after gunfire erupted Sunday at the Greenwood Park Mall in Greenwood, taking the lives of three shoppers and wounding two others.
Greenwood Police Chief James Ison said Mr. Dicken did not appear to have a permit, but that he was carrying legally under the constitutional carry law, which was passed in March and went into effect July 1.