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April 27, 2009
Ho Boy
This sounds inflammatory enough, doesn't it? Another rampaging wife beater ambushes cops?
Two deputies from a troubled sheriff's office in Florida had no warning a confrontation with a National Guard soldier accused of beating his wife would turn deadly, the sheriff said.Deputies Burt Lopez and Warren "Skip" York used a stun gun to subdue Joshua Cartwright, but he was able to start shooting at them from the ground. Both Lopez and York died.
"Within seconds he sat up and began firing a weapon that came out of nowhere, it was somewhere on his body we assume," Okaloosa County's Interim Sheriff Ed Spooner told more than 300 sheriff's office employees who gathered Sunday night to pray and hear an explanation of the shootings.
Dear God, I am so sorry for their loss. It is tragic beyond all reckoning. So it is with some trepidation and little law-enforcement experience that I put to you the question major dad asked me as he read this in the paper yesterday:
"Why would you attempt to arrest a domestic violence suspect at a shooting range?"
Why? Are we missing something? He's armed for sure, supposedly beats his wife, therefore prone to violence...aren't you kind of asking for a rumble? Why not wait 'til he gets home, puts the guns up and takes a shower? Or stops at the grocery store, leaving the guns in the car. Any place but 'Locked and Loaded'-ville.
What a tragedy. Even more so if it didn't have to turn out that way.
Posted by tree hugging sister at April 27, 2009 11:15 AM