Retired FBI Agent Says Coaching, Mindset Helped Cops Take Down Louisville Shooter

Retired FBI agent Greg Shaffer says hours of coaching and the proper mentality helped the hero cops disarm the person who was taking pictures up a Louisville financial institution.

Greg, an energetic shooter prevention skilled with 20 years of expertise on the FBI, joined us Wednesday on “TMZ Dwell,” and defined simply how troublesome it’s for law enforcement officials to cope with a scenario like this, the place they cannot see the shooter.

Shaffer says the cops clearly had what he calls a “cease the killing earlier than you cease the dying” mindset … noting how Officer Cory “CJ” Galloway made a split-second choice to go after the shooter, although his companion, Officer Nickolas Wilt, had simply been shot within the head.

As Greg explains, Galloway did the proper factor by taking cowl and exchanging gunfire with the shooter … finally taking down the killer, all whereas figuring out his companion was in dire straits.

Greg says Galloway mentally stayed within the struggle till the risk was neutralized, then went to assist his companion … telling us it is textbook police coaching.

Officer Wilt was solely 10 days out of the police academy when he responded to the scene … and he stays hospitalized in important situation, combating for his life.