"Instead of running from the threat, she engaged with the threat and saved several lives last night," Tony Hazelett, chief of detectives in Charleston, told local news outlets, according to WRC-TV.

Detectives believe the 37-year-old assailant, Dennis Butler, drove around the apartment complex earlier in the day and was told by residents to slow down because there were children playing. When the unnamed woman saw Butler pull a rifle and begin shooting into the crowd of dozens of people, she drew her pistol and fatally shot the man.

After the heroic woman killed the gunman, she waited alongside other survivors and witnesses, all of whom spoke with the police once they arrived. Hazelett said the woman, who cooperated with police, will not face any charges.

The woman's fast-acting bravery comes amid renewed calls from the left for sweeping gun control in the wake of the horrific assault at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where a gun-wielding teenager opened fire in a fourth-grade classroom, killing 19 children and two teachers. And earlier in May, an attacker stormed into a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, where he fatally shot 10 people and wounded three others... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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