“You could have shot him somewhere else. You don’t want him to live no more? For what? I don’t get it.”
Well, pop, apparently your sonny boy didn't want to "live no more". Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Posted on 10/26/2015 3:43:25 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
TAMPA -- A suspect shot this morning after Tampa police said he attempted to drown an officer and a police K-9 has died of his injuries. Kobvey Igbuhay, 18, died at the hospital where he was taken after being shot during the altercation with an officer.
Police said the altercation occurred after four suspects in a stolen car fled into a swampy area to elude police.
Two other teens police said were in the stolen car and taken into custody were identified as Dominic Robles, 18, and Shakira Rodriguez, 18. Rodriguez was apprehended after hiding in the woods for more than three hours. Police said the fourth teen in the car is a 16-year-old juvenile who is not being identified at this time. Charges are pending for all three suspects. Officials say the incident started at 2:30 a.m. when a police officer spotted a stolen SUV near Nebraska and Lake avenues. Four people were inside the SUV. The officer briefly pursued the SUV, officials say, and then called a police helicopter, which followed the SUV from the air.
The SUV traveled north and stopped behind the First Presbyterian Church of Tampa, located at 4307 Humphrey St., and the suspects got out of the SUV and ran into a wooded area with deep, swampy water.
Two of the suspects were quickly taken into custody, and police followed the other suspects into the woods with K-9 police dogs. Officials say one of the suspects tried to drown a police dog and fight with an officer, who defended himself by shooting the suspect.
The suspect was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he later died.
Dozens of officers established a perimeter around the wooded area, and a police helicopter circled the area, tracking the fourth suspect with night vision. The suspect refused to come out, but was eventually apprehended at about 6:25 a.m.
The officer and the police dog are being checked out. Officials say they did not suffer serious injuries.
Igbuhay's Father, Harvey Igbuhey, and family have questions. They don’t believe the 18 year old was trying to hurt anyone. They believe he was scared, trying to get away.
"I want to see why would he shoot my son in the head,” he said. “You could have shot him somewhere else. You don’t want him to live no more? For what? I don’t get it.”
The officer, a 15-year veteran, said he fired in self-defense. He’s on paid administrative leave, standard for any officer-involved shooting.
Kobvey Igbuhay = Pig Latin ?
I really like reading stories with happy endings.
Buh Bye.
The head shot is suspicious. There may be a good reason for it but police usually go for a center-mass shot.
A headshot with a pistol smells like a deliberate act. It’ll be interesting to find out if there is a body camera to support the police officer’s actions and, if not, it’ll be equally interesting to see if the dead boy had powder burns on his head.
Cops doing what gators won’t do.
It doesn’t say how deep the water was, or if the dog was in the way. The officer may not have had much to shoot at.
Kilt his dog.
If that's the case then the boy's hands were under water and not posing an immediate threat. Shooting someone who is swimming away is not at all defensible.
It's also an impressive shot. That's why I'm curious if there are powder burns. Especially on the BACK of his head.
No, the dog is just fine.
Yep,
STUPID should hurt
stupid SHOULD hurt
stupid should HURT
Could not care less if I tried.
Well, according to the article, he was attempting to kill another law enforcement officer.
Kobvey Igbuhay, eh? One of those darling children of immigrants who came here as an act of love?
So the 15 year veteran felt that his only choice was to shoot the perp in the head? It makes no sense. Was the perp armed? There has to be something wrong with the way these stories are being reported.
No offense, but if he was then the cop who fired the shot was being reckless and endangering another cop’s life.
The details of the story just don’t square up for me.
Don’t mind me if I wait on the coroner’s report.
The picture of innocent </I>Kobvey Igbuhay</I> from the Tampa Bay online newspaper makes him look almost Caucasian with curly black hair ... thanks for posting this picture of the piece of trash ...
Nice to see someone else noticing that this story doesn’t make sense.
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