Kenneth A. Truitt died as a result of his efforts to save an indeterminate number of persons from being shot, Daingerfield, Texas, June 22, 1980. After an armed man entered the nave of a church, fired at persons there, and was forced into the foyer by a member of the congregation, another member struggled with the assailant and was fatally wounded as they moved outside through the front door. Truitt, 49, electrical contractor, who had followed the men into the foyer, reached the outside as the assailant turned back toward the church door, still armed. Truitt dived at the assailant, who shot him. Truitt died, as did three of the persons wounded in the initial gunfire. 57360-6517
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