Posted on 09/15/2009 7:11:12 PM PDT by Morgana
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Charleston Mayor Danny Jones revealed at a Sunday evening news conference that "there's every reason to believe" friendly fire killed Patrolman Jerry Jones.
Patrolman Jones was shot and killed during a chase that ended in the Quick area of Kanawha County after 1 a.m. Sunday morning.
Mayor Danny Jones says police can't prove it at this point, but they believe the shot that killed Patrolman Jones came from one of the city's officers. Mayor Jones says they are not sure which gun the bullet came from, but police believe the suspect during the chase was "armed with a two-and-a-half-ton vehicle" and not a gun. Patrolman Jones was wearing a bullet proof vest when he was shot, but was hit just above it.
Mayor Jones says it all started at about 9 p.m. Saturday when the suspect, who the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department has identified as 31-year-old Brian Scott Good of Slack’s Trailer Court in Miliken, apparently hit a woman's car in Charleston and took off. Officers spotted his vehicle later in the night, and that's when the chase started.
Good pulled his pickup truck into a gravel lot off Quick Road, turned around and rammed his truck into a police cruiser at full throttle, and then backed up and hit two other cruisers, according to the mayor.
"He had to be stopped," said Jones. "You could not let this individual be turned back loose to the public.
Officers then shot and killed Good and Patrolman Jones was hit. Jones was flown to a Charleston hospital where he later died.
"Now, in the crossfire, it looks like something terrible has happened here," said Mayor Jones. "But in my eyes, these officers are all heroes."
Chief Brent Webster says he believes the officers made the right decisions.
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We had a “friendly-fire” LODD in Reading Pennsylvania a couple of years ago—deep cover narc officer in a deal gone sour, uniforms didn’t know who was who.
We lost a hero here, last week. Killed by a dirtbag that should have never been on the streets. But, a judge decided that he should be given another chance, not $30,000 bail....
http://www.startribune.com/local/east/59019737.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU
The community will be forced to attend the funeral whether they want to or not when the cops obstruct all the roads for the cortege.
That's the way it works around here at least.
This entire community was recently forced to attend the funeral of a deputy sheriff who encountered a fatal bullet after pulling somebody over for a dim license plate light.
This is what happens when communities use police as revenue enhancement officers instead of peace officers.
Disgraceful.
We need to get rid of these judges.....
“We need to get rid of these judges.....”
I’m doing everything that I can. But, I’m just one pissed off voter....
RIP.
So am I....
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