Dallas gunman learned combat tactics at Texas self-defense school
Micah Johnson, an Army veteran, received instruction on how to shoot on the move which he used during the Dallas attack
The gunman who killed five police officers at a protest march received training from a private self-defence school in Texas, a school official said on Saturday at the academy that teaches firearm tactics, including “shooting on the move,” a manoeuvre in which an attacker fires and changes position before firing again.
Micah Johnson, an Army veteran, received instruction at the Academy of Combative Warrior Arts in the Dallas suburb of Richardson about two years ago, a person who said he was in charge of the organisation said. The man refused to answer additional questions and would not give his name.
The man’s statement was corroborated by a police report from May 8, 2015, when someone at a business a short distance away called in a report of several suspicious people in a parked SUV.
The investigating officer closed the case just minutes after arriving at the scene in a parking lot behind a strip mall. While there, the officer spoke to Johnson, who said he “had just gotten out of a class at a nearby self-defence school”.
Johnson told the officer he was “waiting for his dad to arrive” and pick up his brother. No one else was apparently questioned.
