Posted on 06/10/2024 2:37:05 AM PDT by Libloather
Incredible footage has been released of the moment a sheriff's sniper killed a suspect by shooting directly through a computer monitor.
Sterling Ramon Alavache was holding two Bank of America workers in Florida at knifepoint while claiming to have a bomb.
Officers had already tried to get the would-be bank robber to surrender but instead Alavache decided instead to take two hostages.
The 36-year-old then put one of them in a headlock and held a knife to her throat - and that's when a SWAT team's sheriff's sniper decided to end the siege.
With remarkable precision, the bullet was fired straight through a computer monitor and into Alavache's head, killing him instantly.
The woman he tried to use as a shield, one other hostage and everyone else at the scene in the bank, just outside Fort Myers, escaped without injury.
The robbery attempt, hostage situation and sniper fire brought a bustling suburban area lined with chain restaurants, hotels, an outdoor mall and office buildings to a terrifying halt as the Lee County Sheriff´s Office responded with tools including a robotic dog, drones, a battering ram and a SWAT team.
The Lee County Sheriff's Office didn't say where the sniper shot from, but SWAT members had surrounded the bank to deal with the hostage situation.
Video on the sheriff's office Facebook page showed several deputies standing with their rifles raised, near an entrance to the bank alongside a negotiator who spoke with Alavache seconds before a shot rings out.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“You got him?”
“Yeah - I got him.”
“Take the shot.”
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I’ve seen some videos of Fort Scott ammunition. Solid brass and it will fire through a car door, the “A” pillar, etc. and stays intact. Once it hits a block of gelatin inside it will penetrate and start tumbling. I don’t know if they would need something like that to get through a mostly plastic monitor or not.
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OTOH, Brave is my normal browser and injects ads on all videos
Thanks. If you’re on your phone there are sites you just can’t go on. NYPost, Daily Mail, Brietbart. The screen never stops hopping and refreshing to adverts.
Or was the author upset a bad guy got his head blown off Instead of a "no bail" your free, see you in 6 months, pretrial?
It didn’t look like a tough shot to me either.
Pretty crazy. Both hostages were close. Deflection could have had catastrophic consequences.
They pour on the sympathy for the POS, depression, MS, drug and alcohol addiction, paranoid schizophrenia and manic depression and his GoFundMe page which should be confiscated and any funds going to the woman he held.
Another POS dead, it’s a good thing.
That’s weird, I use Brave, just watched the video, and I had no ads....
He learned the difference between cover and concealment the hard way.
Without clicking the link, does anyone know what city town this was in? You’d think that the article would start off with that, but no, that’s too much to expect. Thank you.
This situation creates the opportunity for the woman held in the hands of the perp to sue the sheriff’s department for the PTSD she will be suffering as a result of this guy’s head disintegrating as she was held.
A good ambulance chaser will not let this go to waste.
The part of the article I read said Fort Myers
Whenever a democrat dies, a toilet is flushed. /spit
What was the last thing that went through his head as he held the hostages at knifepoint?
responded with tools including a robotic dog, drones,
a battering ram and a SWAT team.
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Humans, animals and others are being replaced as technology
expands.
Ditto that.
Interesting about the “entry wound” on the door. That from tumbling projectile or did it break up on impact? Oh, or skull fragments?
Good shot though.
I give it a 9.9, although some of the Russian judges here want to give it a 4.
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