Police respond to reports of gunman in Davenport, Bettendorf

KWQC News, Davenport, Iowa ^ | October 26, 2015 | Marcia Lense

[neocon1984]

I work one mile up the road and have not heard anything.

This is a very safe area. The cops are rarely around because they are needed on the west side of Davenport where the gangsters live.

[Aliska]

That's good to know, especially with all the shots reported.

Sad situation all the way around and a lot of disruption. Thank you for the update.

Regarding the streaming video. It says listen live and I clicked a connect but didn't get anything, maybe got impatient. Not a very user friendly site.

I am listening to my radio in the other room while I'm surfing.

[Red Badger]

When the deputy was reported shot on the local news, I immediately called my daughter to see where she was. She cleans law offices in that area and also the neighboring town where the SOB holed up in a motel and killed himself when the cops cornered him........................

[Aliska]

I just finished reading your link. Especially tragic that case. Looked like a really sweet guy.

I didn't know they process serve in law offices. Maybe if they don't know where the person is but usually serve at home or maybe work.

It seems like maybe when those things are being served, some kind of protection by police would be in order but they can't do everything.

That shooter hit the sheriff's deputy so fast, he didn't have time to pull his gun, presume he was armed. Just took him by surprise and fled.

There is just too much of this sort of thing. Maybe I don't know what the past was really like, well, there were a whole lot fewer divorces and I never heard of a restraining order until was well into adulthood because hardly anyone would have felt the need to use them. They are ineffective anyway.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

A Marine recruiter told everyone to run.

An armed Marine recruiter might have been able to stabilize the situation. But, nooooo! They're not allowed to be armed!

[SkyDancer]

And G-d forbid any of those recruiters has a gun because if he or she shot the person they’d be court martialed.

[Aliska]

No, they can't have guns, but maybe they did and didn't use them. If they had, it probably would have been suicide by Marine recruiter, a shootout or who knows? The head Marine office in Great Lakes, IL, issued a statement because it was so close to a Marine recruiting office.

SkyDancer, yes they would probably have been in big trouble even if they saved a lot of lives. When the story first broke, it sounded like the Marine office was the target, so naturally my mind raced to Chattanooga. Glad it wasn't that.

The article has been updated on the Quad City Times website, is under most read on the front page. It's very fortunate it wasn't worse than it was.

There may be a little more about it, but some of it we may never know. We have had a steep uptick in shots fired lately.

[Aliska]

Isn't that Russia Today? Odd they picked up the story. Maybe they thought they had a scoop. I confess I thought I might have a big breaking story. Glad I was wrong. It was serious serious enough locally.

Thank you for finding that.

[Red Badger]

The deputy was shot in the back of the head. Never knew what hit him. He was a well known officer here and was very quiet and peaceful guy. He was retired, and was just working part time to make money to take his grandchild to Disney World..............