Officer Involved Shooting in My Home Town

[Keith B]

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This happened in my hometown where I used to be a Reserve LEO.

Apparently the suspect had stabbed a man earlier and when police located the suspect he charged the officers with a knife and was shot and killed by one officer. I more than likely know this officer, so will be praying for his peace after the Ferguson fiasco. Ferguson is about 150 miles north of this town.

This is in the downtown area and most of the apartments along Broadway are very low rent apartments with many people on government housing aid in them. Many of them rent for less than $250 a month, so you don't always get people who are of the most upstanding caliber or even that have steady jobs or jobs at all.

Many of these buildings in the downtown area have a commercial business on the main floor and apartments on the 2nd and/or 3rd floors . My father-in-law has a building a block away from this one like that. He usually has decent renters, but periodically gets someone who is trouble and has to be evicted for problems.

Note in the video there is a bar (tavern) under on the main level under the apartments at this location. There has been a tavern of some sorts as long as I can remember. We used to get calls about every other week to break up fights or arrest an unruly patron in there when I was a LEO. Not sure how it is these days, but will bet it's not much different.

This is the first local LEO-involved shooting I can remember in many years; maybe even since I was a LEO over 30 years ago. However, last year there was an unfortunate shooting in the county by a Deputy Sheriff of a man on his property where the Sheriff had been called about a possible prowler and the daughter had called her father as well. The father apparently came to the farm property and the deputy was shot at by the father. The deputy returned fire and killed the man. The shooting was found as justifiable by the GJ http://raycomnbc.worldnow.com/story/260 ... d-shooting" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I knew the man who was shot killed. Our fathers worked together at the Rural Electric Coop for over 20 years. Not sure what prompted him to shoot at the deputy. His daughter had apparently told him the sheriff's office had been called, so he should have known they would be responding.