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http://www.freep.com/article/20111005/NEWS01/110050444
This was a cluster you know what from the start. Some teenage kid at a party store gives some guy a "look", so he goes home, gets a gun and kills the kid. Later swat goes to arrest him at his home, and this part gets murky, but as they gain entry, some contact is made with the grandmother, maybe a struggle, maybe just a bump, but a little kid sleeping on the couch gets hit with a round from the guy making entry. Turns out the guy was in the upstairs flat anyway, family lives in upper and lower.
Got to be a nightmare for all involved, living with that.
I'm not sure what to make of the charges. On the one hand, if there was an AD, most likely it was an ND, his finger was on the trigger when grandma collided with him if the gun went off. But coming in hot, with an armed and dangerous fugitive inside, maybe he just saw movement coming his way, mistook grandma for BG for a second, and contact made before he got finger off, bump directed muzzle toward girl, and that's what caused it? Don't know, my gut instinct is finger on trigger without target in sight= ND not just AD.
This was the raid that was being filmed by TV crews also, so there's speculation they went overboard for the cameras. After all, no reason to send swat in after a guy that shot someone over the wrong "look", who's still presumably armed and reluctant to go to jail, right? Right??? :faint:
Randy
This was a cluster you know what from the start. Some teenage kid at a party store gives some guy a "look", so he goes home, gets a gun and kills the kid. Later swat goes to arrest him at his home, and this part gets murky, but as they gain entry, some contact is made with the grandmother, maybe a struggle, maybe just a bump, but a little kid sleeping on the couch gets hit with a round from the guy making entry. Turns out the guy was in the upstairs flat anyway, family lives in upper and lower.
Got to be a nightmare for all involved, living with that.
I'm not sure what to make of the charges. On the one hand, if there was an AD, most likely it was an ND, his finger was on the trigger when grandma collided with him if the gun went off. But coming in hot, with an armed and dangerous fugitive inside, maybe he just saw movement coming his way, mistook grandma for BG for a second, and contact made before he got finger off, bump directed muzzle toward girl, and that's what caused it? Don't know, my gut instinct is finger on trigger without target in sight= ND not just AD.
This was the raid that was being filmed by TV crews also, so there's speculation they went overboard for the cameras. After all, no reason to send swat in after a guy that shot someone over the wrong "look", who's still presumably armed and reluctant to go to jail, right? Right??? :faint:
Randy
