Posted on 04/02/2009 5:59:15 PM PDT by Chet 99
Andre Doss said he responded to his father's call for help at his local business and called 9-1-1 himself. Police arrived and shot him instead.
In a CBS 2 HD exclusive we have the audio recording of just what happened when police were executing a search warrant in Roselle, N.J.
When Andre Doss was shot in the upper torso, family members said by a police officer, it was all being recorded.
Doss: "Oh Lord, please, please, please, please, please, please, please ... call an ambulance! Somebody shot me!"
Doss: "Why did you shoot me? Why did you shoot me sir? Holy ... help me God."
CBS 2 HD exclusively obtained the audio tape where you can hear the 26-year-old saying he's the one who called police to his father's contracting business off of St. Georges Avenue.
Doss: "I called you guys. I called you guys 'cause someone was trying to shoot me. Oh my God. Why are doing this? What's this for? What is this for?"
Officer: "Got a search warrant."
The Union County prosecutor's office is investigating, trying to determine why the officer fired his weapon.
Doss is recovering at a local hospital, in stable condition.
"We don't know as far as the doctors what they're going to do with him," Doss' mother, Rhonda Julius, said.
Julius also said the police told her the officer slipped on wet pavement and the gun accidentally went off.
"Basically the cops kicked in the door, [Doss] opened the officer door and when he opened the office door the cops shot him," Julius said.
Here's more of the audio:
Officer: "Try to calm yourself down. That's the whole thing. Calm yourself down."
You can hear Doss on the recording pleading with police to take off his handcuffs.
Doss: "Help me … Can you take these off of my arms. I am not dangerous. I'm no danger."
Officer: "You're a suspect right, all right? We're here for a reason."
The officer eventually took off the restraints.
Doss: "I'm going to die."
Officer: "You're not going to die."
Officer: "Ambulance is here."
Prosecutors told CBS 2 HD Roselle Police were executing a search warrant, after investigating a drug distribution operation out of the business.
"[The father] called him instead of them responding. I don't know what went wrong," Julius said.
Police said the officer who fired his weapon -- a 19-year veteran of the force -- has been placed on leave as this investigation continues.
Dial 911 and die.
Get the heck rid of that officer RFN.
Just about.
The question still remains...Why did he shoot the guy????? The reporter could not get a statement from the police? geeez
A name, an address, the dark of night, and bloody retribution.
Methinks the time for this is come fast upon us.
“The Roselle police officer who shot a suspect during a drug raid Wednesday night fired his weapon accidentally after slipping and falling, police told the injured man’s mother.”
Prosecutors told CBS 2 HD Roselle Police were executing a search warrant, after investigating a drug distribution operation out of the business..
CBS 2 HD exclusively obtained the audio tape where you can hear the 26-year-old saying he’s the one who called police to his father’s contracting business off of St. Georges Avenue.
This story stinks...
Andre Doss said he responded to his father’s call for help at his local business and called 9-1-1 himself.
Officer: “Got a search warrant.”
Don’t they teach these clowns basic firearms safety? Like “Keep your f’ing finger off the f’ing trigger until your f’ing sights are on the f’ing target”?
>A name, an address, the dark of night, and bloody retribution.
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>Methinks the time for this is come fast upon us.
Mayhaps.
Wonder if we could use that excuse.
Judge,I was just cleaning my gun and somebody knocked on my door,I tripped and blew a 6 inch hole through this man.Im’sorry.That other dude,my wife tripped on a Frito.
This is BS.
It is past time for a federal law prohibiting all active duty police officers from watching cop shows; or Westerns.
You can’t seriously be soliciting an attack on a police officer in an open forum, even if you believe the shooting was unjustified.
I keep seeing the expression “There are few situations that can’t be made worse by the addition of a cop.”
This would seem to be one of them.
or from having “high and tight” haircuts.
I was slipping so I reached out to steady myself, but the thing I grabbed just happened to be the trigger of my gun, which happened to be aimed at the individual’s chest.
After accidentally discharging my weapon into the victim’s chest, I handcuffed him for his own safety.
I assumed he was speaking of the officer’s conduct?
2 sets of eyes, 2 interpretations.
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