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Hurst police officer involved in shooting 02/06/2003 By DEBRA DENNIS / The Dallas Morning News A Hurst tactical police officer shot a 38-year-old suspect as they were attempting to serve a search and arrest warrant Wednesday night, authorities said. The unidentified Hurst man was shot two to three times at his apartment after trying to grab the officer's MP-5 submachine gun, said Assistant Police Chief Richard Winstanley. "The suspect had an unknown object in his hand and physically grabbed the officer and the barrel of the officer's gun," he said. The suspect was treated by paramedics at the scene...

FBI studies Garland police shooting 01/25/2003 From Staff Reports Garland Police Chief Larry Wilson asked the FBI on Friday to investigate his officers' fatal shooting of Jorge Cruz. The request comes in response to complaints about the department's use of force against minorities. On Wednesday, a Dallas County grand jury declined to indict the four officers who fired at Mr. Cruz on Aug. 31. The officers also have been cleared by a Garland department shooting review board. According to police reports, Mr. Cruz had threatened neighbors with a knife and attacked the officers after ignoring their commands in English...

(Canada) Officers cleared in dog's shooting But Bear's owner was distressed to learn the German shepherd was shot four times. By KELLY PEDRO, Free Press Crime Reporter Nine officers involved in a botched drug raid in which they killed a family dog were cleared yesterday by an internal London police investigation of any wrongdoing. But Marcie Carroll, whose apartment was mistakenly raided by police, was upset to learn Bear, her six-year-old German shepherd, was shot four times by police, not once as they first told her. "She has had an opportunity to learn things . . . she has not...

<p>Ocean County prosecutor Greg Sackowicz said officials have positively identified the body as Edward Lutes, a 15-year veteran of the Seaside Heights Police Department. He appeared to have died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a vehicle, Sackowicz said.</p> <p>According to Dover Township Police Chief Michael Mastronardy, the body was that of Edward Lutes, a 15-year veteran of the Seaside Heights police department.</p>