Swat Team Shoots Suspect 68 Times

[dgridley]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/01/deputy.shooting.ap/index.html

"You have to understand, he had already shot and killed a deputy, he had already shot and killed a K-9 and he shot and injured another deputy," Judd said by phone Saturday. "Quite frankly, we weren't taking any chances."

In all, 110 rounds of ammo were expended..

"I suspect the only reason 110 rounds was all that was fired was that's all the ammunition they had," Judd said. "We were not going to take any chance of him shooting back."

 

[.X.]

my gawd....over kill is a good phrase perhaps...110 rounds goes fast between that many officers all firing at once...But jeeeeeeeese

 

[dhscott]

Weel, they had to make sure! :hehe:

 

[franchise]

So did the guy die?

Just kidding....

 

[kemjika11]

because he killed the deputy, a dog, and injured another officer doesn't really justify 110 bullets, but i can see why that happened. i agree it was overkill. the 110 bullets or 68 was just vengeance. their action reflects the same way america thought after 9/11 - they just couldn't believe it could have happened to them.

 

[dgridley]

Seems more like an execution than an arrest..

I can understand their frustration, but it's no excuse..

 

[painperdu]

They're advertising to all future would-be cop killers.

 

[dgridley]

OK, well, considering they shot him 68 times.. maybe he killed the deputy and dog in SELF-DEFENSE, lol.. apparently these guys were already out to get him.

:lol:

 

[Joe]

lol...
110 shots
wow

 

[amcdonald]

he killed a cop i suspect a minimum of 15 officers were on scene because swat was there, so you take swat and other officers, thats alot of people shooting.

15 / 110 = 7 bullets each.

seems about right. keep shooting till he stops moving. there is no firing order , every officer shoots when lives are threatened.

 

[Web-Viper]

i saw the amount of police involved they had over 500 police officers involved at the moment i think their should have been at least 4000 shots every cop should have unloaded on him you never know when a suspect is wearing body armor or anything else the guy was not afraid to shoot cops and what they did was make sure their family was not thye next one getting the phone call that the first cops wife and kids got. the guy was scum and deserved every bullet he got plus some imo. you do not shoot cops and you dont shoot other people either it is not right unless in self defense and btw no the guy didnt shoot the cops in the first place as self defense if he had they wouldnt have had the chance for this one. the first cops would have killed him their mistake was not shooting him in the first place and it cost them their lives.

 

[dgridley]

I was joking.. but I didn't see in the story what he was wanted for originally so I don't think we can automatically assume he was "scum".. he could have been involved in a domestic dispute initially and things got out of hand for all we know..

no the guy didnt shoot the cops in the first place as self defense

 

[ThreeD]

Better be safe than sorry I guess!

 

[DN Tycoon]

Seems more like an execution than an arrest..

I can understand their frustration, but it's no excuse..

IMO the guy got away easy, he should have been killed slowly....scum bags liek this don't deserve to have a life!

I was joking.. but I didn't see in the story what he was wanted for originally so I don't think we can automatically assume he was "scum".. he could have been involved in a domestic dispute initially and things got out of hand for all we know..

The guy killed 2 cops and injured one I think that qualifies as scum no matter what he did.

 

[Barrucadu]

68 was WAY to many, at most he should have been stunned and arrested.
Then put in a horrible small prison cell for the rest of his life.

 

[Peter]

although 68 is too many put yourself in the police officers shoes. Woruld you be willing to take the risk, maybe you would have been next.

 

[{insert name here}]

I honestly dont think 68 was enough, pump him full of everything you got, his life was not worth anything as soon as he killed someone else.

 

[maximum]

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[.X.]

i guess they kept shooting until he stopped moving....the only reason he was still moving is from the bullets throwing his body around imo....he was a goner pretty quick i would imagine...proly after no more than 4 to 5 bullets in him.

 

[stscac]

Wow, that's right near the town my grandparents stay for the winter and where I was in March.

:o

-Steve