This story makes my stomach turn, but these are the realities seen every day on our streets. Try to help a guy out, even save his life, and you're still a target of his rage.

Mitch Lundgaard was out in Appleton saving lives back in 2019, working hard for his city, just being a genuinely nice guy. Saved a man's life, and this was how he was repaid.

The first responders gave medical help to the man, who eventually left the bus and started walking toward a nearby library, police said.

"While attending to the male, believed to be from the Wausau area, the incident escalated into shots being fired," police said in a statement.

Firefighter Mitch Lundgaard, a 14-year veteran, was killed.

All Lundgaard wanted to do was give this man a pat down and make sure he didn't have anything illegal on him, since, you know, he had just been revived using Narcan. The drugged up man had a gun on him, but instead of just owning up to it, he did this instead:

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This perp had his life saved ... only to lose it while killing the man who had saved his life. That's just crazy talk, and you'd never expect it to be a real story.

For the record, the killer had recently been released on $500 bail a week earlier because prosecutors didn't realize he had a long rap sheet, so we have yet another example of these easy-on-crime policies leading to murder.

Lundgaard left behind his wife and three sons.

They are the reason this story is going viral on social media this week, 4 years after the fact.

See, because Lundgaard's death didn't fit the narrative, he was barely a blip in the news. He had the local post office building named in his honor, but his family's GoFundMe didn't even hit its goal.

Think of all the criminals who have raked in millions (or billions) when the media uses them to advance a narrative.

We can't treat our heroes the same?

Let's make it happen, folks.

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