Shooting survivor: Boyfriend 'took a bullet for me'

[blueshogun96]

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Amid the booms of gunfire and smoke from tear gas in a crowded Aurora, Colo., movie theater, Jansen Young felt her boyfriend give her one final push under a seat to shield her – a move she believes saved her life.
But Jon Blunk didn’t survive the attack on the Friday midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” outside Denver.

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"Jon just took a bullet for me," Young, a 21-year-old who recently became a certified veterinarian technician, told TODAY.
The couple, dating since October, according to Young, had been surprised to be able to get tickets on the day of the popular movie’s premiere.
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When the alleged assailant, James Eagan Holmes, began his attack on the crowd, Blunk, who Young said had some military experience, knew what was going on, Young said.
"He knew and threw me on the ground, and was like, 'We have to get down and stay down,'" she told NBC News.

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In the chaos that ensued, Young recalled hearing a woman screaming, "I've been shot,” and a man who stepped on the chair she was hiding under crying out, “Jessie’s been shot.” She heard the constant "boom, boom, boom" of the guns and smelled the gunpowder.
"There was kind of a break in between each gunshot,” she said. "Every gunshot, I was like, 'This is it … I'm done for.'"
The one constant for her during the attack was Jon's arms pushing her under the seat to keep her out of the line of fire. At one point, she felt herself get struck, and showed a reporter about a dozen marks on her left torso that she believes may have been from shrapnel.
"I kind of felt that in multiple places,” she said of the marks. Then, she said, "Jon gave me one good push against that concrete again and then … I didn’t really feel his arms against my back anymore but I knew he was still there."
At first, she didn’t think he had been shot, but knew something had happened.

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"I guess I didn’t really know he had passed, up until I started shaking him and saying, 'Jon, Jon we have to go … it's time for us to get out of here,'" she said, her voice trembling.
When Young wiggled out from under the seat, few people were left in the theater. She saw some people crawling on the ground, a few still in their seats and others running out.
She tried to pull Blunk up by the shoulder, but he didn’t move, and she assumed he was dead.
Blunk's estranged wife, Chantel Blunk, who lives in Reno, Nev., with their two kids, confirmed to NBC News that the FBI said Blunk was indeed killed in the theater.
“He is the guy that would take a bullet for you. He did the right thing all the time,” Young said. “I know I would not be here today if Jon had not been next to me in that movie theater.”
She told TODAY he wasn’t just a hero that fateful Friday night, but had been one forever. She said he had been planning to re-enlist in the military.
“It was what he wanted to do. He loved it,” she said. “Even though he saved me and gave me the opportunity to live, he would’ve done that for anyone that day.”
Young said she still couldn’t believe he was gone.
“I’m still trying to decide if this is real, like you know, he’s going to walk in the door tonight when he gets off work."

I salute him. R.I.P. sir. Not just a boyfriend, but a hero.

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"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;" -Ephesians 5:25

This was the first thing that came to my mind after reading the title. No [anti]-religious bullcrap, please.

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[SCHUMI_4EVER]

Great dude and all but I don't see how he took a bullet for her...taking a bullet means you're both in the line of fire and with her being shielded already from the line of fire by being so low on the ground I don't see how that happened. And then you have to take into account the caliber of gun and the type of bullet meaning even shielding her might have been useless if she actually was in the line of fire with the bullet possibly having the capability to do a through and through on him and hitting the girl anyways.
Sounds a bit too much like exaggeration without knowing where he was hit or with what.
But hey he saved her life sure so he's still a hero and I salute him as well, just not necessarily as selfless as this article makes him out to be.

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[blueshogun96]

Yeah, good observation. I only skimmed through it and got to the good points because my mind is all over the place right now. Maybe I do have ADD...

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[cottonvibes]

another thing i noticed is the guy was married with 2 kids, and was dating this 21 year old girl.
how old is this guy to have had a wife with 2 kids already!?

from his actions in the movie theater he sounds like a hero, but from his past history he sounds like a douche-bag.

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[Xblade]

You'd be surprised how fast military members move on that front, he was likely in his mid/late 20s. Estranged means he wasn't with his wife barring legal binding......so I'm not sure how you could gather "douchebag" from that.

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[cottonvibes]

Originally Posted by Xblade

You'd be surprised how fast military members move on that front, he was likely in his mid/late 20s. Estranged means he wasn't with his wife barring legal binding......so I'm not sure how you could gather "douchebag" from that.

i don't know how old he is; but some guy around 23~24 years old having had 2 kids already and been married.
then leaving his wife after probably a year of marriage, and dating another woman; sounds like a sex-hungry alpha-male douchebag to me.

if you don't love someone long enough to stay with them, then don't have multiple kids with them, and don't marry them.

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[Kaizen]

Originally Posted by cottonvibes

i don't know how old he is; but some guy around 23~24 years old having had 2 kids already and been married.
then leaving his wife after probably a year of marriage, and dating another woman; sounds like a sex-hungry alpha-male douchebag to me.

if you don't love someone long enough to stay with them, then don't have multiple kids with them, and don't marry them.

Douchebag wife, lead a man into marrying you then doing his best friend in his bed whilst the kids are downstairs whilst he's fighting for his life.
Sounds like a manipulative money grabber to me.

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This isn't my view at all, just showing you what yours sounds like from a fresh perspective, we have absolutely no idea of the circumstances and even if we did, do we have the right to pass judgement?

I feel like jesus here. Go in peace.
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[cottonvibes]

Originally Posted by Kaizen

Douchebag wife, lead a man into marrying you then doing his best friend in his bed whilst the kids are downstairs whilst he's fighting for his life.
Sounds like a manipulative money grabber to me.

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This isn't my view at all, just showing you what yours sounds like from a fresh perspective, we have absolutely no idea of the circumstances and even if we did, do we have the right to pass judgement?

I feel like jesus here. Go in peace.
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you have a good point, we don't know the full circumstances.
and since we don't, I don't think we can qualify him as a hero or not from what little info we have. Doing one courageous thing at the end of your life doesn't make you a hero if you've lived a crappy life until then.

do we have the right to pass judgement? well I think rather than passing judgement, we're more like classifying him.
do we have the right to classify him? i think so (if we knew the full circumstances); its just our opinion anyways.

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[Nar Matteru]

Originally Posted by Xblade

You'd be surprised how fast military members move on that front, he was likely in his mid/late 20s.

This.


Also, Not every marriage failure involves deceit or cruelty.

Guy gave his life to save another, automatically assuming that he or his ex wife are terrible persons is a bit of an unfair tangent to go on, given how little information is known about the guy (and even less about his ex)

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Last edited by Nar Matteru; July 26th, 2012 at 07:26.. Reason: how'd that parenthesis move over a whole word...