road trip down old Route 66 led to a Wild West-style motel shootout for a pioneering CNN anchor and her former-soldier hubby.
Lynne Russell — the first woman to ever solo-anchor a primetime network news show — and Chuck de Caro, 65, had stopped at a Motel 6 for the night in Albuquerque when an intruder slipped into their room as Russell went to grab something from the car around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.
“I opened the door and he materialized out of nowhere; he was inside,” she told The Post. “And he pushed me into the room and onto the bed and closed the door.”
De Caro, who was in the shower, emerged completely naked and tried talking to the gunman, who was demanding the couple fork over their money and valuables.
“We tried to calm the man, ask him not to point the gun because we really couldn’t think what we could give him,” Russell said. “It felt to me he was used to doing this, that whatever happened wouldn’t bother him.”
De Caro stood in front of a nightstand, where they had placed their legal, .35-caliber handguns. When the thug grabbed a briefcase and began firing at him, De Caro shot back as Russell ducked behind a piece of furniture.
“It was a gun battle, and Chuck was bleeding heavily, but he didn’t stop firing because the man was firing on him, and he was looking for me,” Russell said.
De Caro was shot twice in the abdomen and once in the leg — but managed to kill the gunman with his return fire. The intruder fled the motel room and collapsed in the parking lot, where cops later found him.
De Caro, a former special forces officer who now works as a national security strategist, was “bleeding profusely” just after the shootout, Russell said.
He was rushed to University of New Mexico Hospital, where he underwent surgery and will continue recuperating for several days.
Russell credited her cool-headed husband with saving their lives, saying, “I just admire him so much.”
“My husband is a hero because he really saved our lives,” she gushed.
De Caro said he called upon his special forces training in the moment, and insisted there was “no way” he would’ve let the gunman harm his wife.
“I was determined to save my dream girl’s life — even if it cost my own,” he told The Post, adding that his injuries “hurt like hell.”
Cops say the shooting was justified.
“The police had to stay with him, keep me from going over to that man’s body and kicking the s–t out of him,” Russell said.
While she’s walked through some “horrific scenes” as a journalist, she said the bloody motel room was still a “shocking” sight.
“When these thing happen to you personally, it’s rough,” Russell said.
The shooting happened four days into the couple’s cross-country road trip from Washington, DC, to California.
"Approval ratings go up and down for various reasons... An example is the high post 911 support for GWB even though he could be said to be responsible for the event." --- Box A Rox '9/11 Truther'
Melania is a bimbo... she is there to look at, not to listen to. --- Box A Rox and his 'War on Women'
Update 4:15 P.M., Tuesday, June 30: An earlier version of this report incorrectly stated that Judge Matsch ordered the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence to pay the defendants’ legal fees in this case.
In fact, Judge Matsch ordered the plaintiffs in the suit, Sandy and Lonnie Phillips, to pay the fees.
Although the Brady Center has publicly described the lawsuit as their own, Lucky Gunner has vowed to recover their fees from the Brady Center, and Judge Matsch addressed the Brady Center’s involvement in his opinion, the Brady Center is not named as a plaintiff in the order. We regret the error.
The Brady Center has not responded to an inquiry about whether they would pay the fees on the Phillips’ behalf.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
1. When there is a war....YOU blame the soldier! 2. When there is a crime...YOU blame the Police! 3. When there is a shooting in a poor neighborhood...YOU automatically blame drugs! 4. GET IT?
1. Wrong, I blame the politicians who declared the wars, and those who carried guns or otherwise carried out the actions.
2. Wrong, I blame the politicians who declared drug war on Americans, escalated police powers to include unlimited use of deadly force on innocent Americans, and those who carried guns or otherwise carried out the actions.
3. Wrong, I blame the politicians who declared the drug war on Americans, those who supported the war and those who carried guns, or otherwise carried out the actions.
4. Yes, I totally get it. You have absolutely less than one single molecule or one single photon of energy being used for reading comprehension.
5. Yes, I do also see how you turn every single topic into an opportunity to bash the posters.
Simple explanation for the board simpleton named Joebxr:
Actions equals reactions, always.
Denial by you always follows every time a reaction occurs.
You are in total denial that initiation of the use of force will always have an equal and opposite reaction.
You are a denier of the laws of physics and reality.
Isaac Newton just texted me and he agrees that you are a simpleton with no concept of the laws of physics.
Yes, he blames the person initiating the force. The soldier, the police, and the drug enforcement officer.
The politicians gave the orders and passed laws escalating the drug war to life imprisonment, resulting in an equal and opposite reaction, so they also share the guilt.
The government allows Americans to be targeted and executed before trial.
A Fort Bragg soldier with an AR-15 assault-type rifle wearing a military ballistic panel carrier and carrying multiple rifle ammunition magazines caused a busy Cross Creek Mall to lock down Thursday night. Bryan Scott Wolfinger, 25, was charged early this morning with going armed to the terror of the public. He told police he was preparing to have photographs taken with military equipment when 911 calls sent Fayetteville police to the mall. Wolfinger was processed at the Cumberland County Detention Center and was released to his company commander and provost marshal at Fort Bragg.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
It's not about 'baking a cake', it about participating in the ceremony. That's what the issue is. As of right now, the first amendment is gone. It's really just that simple.
it about participating
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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