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When the news involves someone you know, it is an entirely different feeling. I awoke to the news on Saturday morning and the rage was unbelievable. Once the suspects were identified and arrested a quick check of their criminal histories at the Charleston County website only made it worse. Plenty of previous arrests, including one for unlawfully carrying a firearm, and this POS and his pals were still running loose.
The media doesn't tell the whole story. You can read the news and think, "Well, that must have been a hell of an altercation." There was no altercation. This officer called out to the suspect because the officer wanted to talk to him. The suspect matched the description of a robbery suspect. Without warning and without provocation the suspect pulled his handgun and fired four rounds at the officer. Thankfully, the round in the chest was stopped by the officer's protective vest.
Good job to all the agencies involved in this investigation and arrest. Can you imagine somewhere in the area of FORTY police cruisers pouncing on a 'hood and just taking it over until their man is in custody? Wish I had been there for that one.
I am disheartened by the future I see, though. In six months or so this asshole will apply for a bond reduction and some idiot magistrate will let him out of jail to run amok while he waits for his trial to start in the next two or three years.
I'm guessing the shooter got that swollen eye running through the woods after he shot a fine officer for no reason.
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I'm glad the officer survived. Offering prayers for his quick healing.
ReplyDeleteWhen I sat on a jury last year, we were all appalled by the arrest records of the defendants we got to see during the penalty phase. Between the three of them, there were over 20 convictions, and half of them were felonies. Two of them should have still been in prison, but were out on parole. The revolving door is just getting worse.
The shootings have been escalating and more frequent on the west as well. I feel your sentiments.
ReplyDeleteLooks like he "fell" on his lips too. I share your rage. back in the early 1990's I was in vehicle pursuit of a car with 5 armed m/b's in it. They had just robbed a jewelry store and shot one of the security guards. As they all jumped into their get-away-car waiting out front, a second armed security guard exchanged rounds as they sped off. No hits but he actually managed to shoot out a rear tire. So as the suspects realized their car was damaged, they stopped at a park and ride next to a freeway onramp and car-jacked an elderly woman. After they all crammed into a little Toyota Camry and sped off down the freeway, they started just shooting randomly at other cars with white drivers. That's when I intercepted the veh and the chase was on. With speeds reaching well over 100 mph they exited the freeway into their "hood', lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a parked car in a residential neighborhood. Like they commonly do, they split up when they bailed out and started running. Two ran south across the dtreet and through backyards and three,including the driver, ran north between 2 houses. I bagan a foot chase by myself of the three. I was alone and knew I needed to find cover and set up a containment with my hand-held radio. But not before one of the suspects doubled back and confronted me face to face from a distance of about 50 feet with no cover or concealment. I had my Baretta 92F 9mm and he had a 45 cal, (dont recall the make). He was sitting on top of a wall that was perfect for him to use as cover/concealment and I was standing between the side yards of two houses. I had to back up only about ten feet in order to obtain cover. But during that short time that I "backed out of the kill zone" we exchanged several rounds. Had he been any kind of disciplined marksman, he would have killed me that day. But thank God and St. Michael I was protected. I managed to get to cover without being shot. I hit the suspect with one round in his left forearm (I think) and he dropped for cover behind the wall. After I set up a huge containment using my hand-held radio, I'm happy to say that all five suspects were arrested that day. All within the containment.
ReplyDeleteTo my surprise, during the booking process it was discovered that this same a-hole that tried to kill me was on parole for murdering a Louisiana State Trooper! Not to my surprise, all 5 susps had extensive criminal records and all were gang members.
During the trial, the public defender's defense was that his client was shooting at me in self defense because I was a white racist (which I am not).
To my delight, during the trial one day, as I arrived at the court house at 0800 hrs I was notified that the defendant who had murdered one cop and tried to murder a 2nd one, had been killed in the county jail by a rival gangbanger! My only point was to disclose my frustration with the "revolving door" but I thought maybe some of you would enjoy the whole story.