Posted on 04/04/2005 3:25:36 PM PDT by SmithL
SAN DIEGO - Police shot and killed a 24-year-old minivan driver who pointed what turned out to be a fake handgun at them early Monday, a senior officer said.
An officer stopped Jacob Richard Faust in downtown San Diego around 1:45 a.m. for making an illegal turn, police Capt. Jim McGinley said. The San Diego man handed over a license that was suspended last month.
Faust cranked up his stereo, drawing the attention of a second officer who stopped to offer assistance. The second officer spotted the handle of an apparent handgun in a pouch behind the passenger seat, McGinley said.
Faust refused orders to get out of the minivan and one of the officers fired a blast of pepper spray to subdue him. At that point, Faust "reached into that pouch and pulled that handgun out and began to point it at one of the officers," McGinley said.
One officer fired three shots, hitting Faust, who died later at a hospital.
The item thought to be a weapon turned out to be a realistic replica of a semiautomatic handgun, McGinley said.
There was no explanation for why Faust reached for the replica, McGinley said. Nothing else of significance was found in the van; his license was suspended last month for an arrest for driving under the influence.
"He's the only one who is going to know the answer to that," McGinley said. "He clearly did not follow officers' orders to get out of the car, and purposefully went for that gun."
The officer who fired his gun, an 11-year department veteran, was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation. Findings from the probe will be forwarded to the San Diego County District Attorney's Office, McGinley said.
Probably, but why call in the mod?
It's a hysterical poster.
It could truly be a relative of the dead guy.
No need for moderator, IMO.
Could be. . .but as you know. . .anyone can claim to be anyone and who's to know.
And guess what; I choose to think that poster is not a relative or related in anyway to the dummy that got himself shot.
Fact is; the troll is a ranting lunatic and should not to be tolerated, relative or not.
Oh please.
You know, he looks like he might have been the Faust of classic literature. Too bad he didn't sell his soul for a few IQ points.
"And this morning in the early AM a deputy tasered a military person who had just returned from IRAQ because the deputy could not rad and went to the wrong address"
And you can't write with precision. Could that have possibly been the case in the deputy going to wrong address also? People make mistakes, some are more conspicuos than others.
"his young man was a christian that would not hurt a fly...was an advocate for the homless"
Posessed a revoked license, driving drunk, uncooperative and pulled a toy gun. My heart bleeds for the bums he was so fond of
Don't you watch NYDP blues?
Hell yes and totaly untraceable. Think about it, if it was your ass on the line what would you or anyone else do to cover your ass, especialy when there is no one to give a conflicting account!
And the fact is, the one left standing writes the history, there is no one to dispute him. The last thing any cop wants after a shooting is a civilian witness, that is a fact and you and all other LEO's know it. Dead men tell no tales, ask Janet Reno, Bill and Hill, they'll tell ya.
Yep, that right captain, I saw him reach for a gun. I didn't know it was a toy gun!
Too bad the bozo doesn't have anything to say about it, he can't say too much now his mouth is all shot up.
Even though it is wrong I do not blame them, it is a tough job out there, there is no concrete answer to this problem.
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