On March 14 that same year he pulled a gun on a woman and her husband because their lab barked at him. “she was upset because (Scott) had pulled a gun on her dog and her husband.” The officer advised her to file a police report and then quarantined her chocolate lab when she could not provide proof of rabies vaccination or a license.
The next day, the dog owner told police that Scott had pointed a gun at him and said, “Your (sic) lucky I didn’t (expletive) kill your dog.”
A police officer wrote up a report, but no charges were ever filed against Scott. The dog owner could not be reached for comment for this article.
Two short marriages produced two written allegations of domestic violence,,,, BEFORE this happened.
In October 1999, Scott’s first wife, Violet, filed a report with the Arapahoe County, Colo., sheriff’s office and alleged that Scott cupped her face in his hands and slammed her head into the ground. The incident left her dizzy, seeing stars and black spots, she wrote. He also threatened, “I want to kill you, (expletive)!”
Colorado authorities issued an arrest warrant for Scott, but he apparently was unaware of it for several months.
Those issues continued in his second marriage, to Lydia Gorzoch. When contacted by the Review-Journal after his death in July, she e-mailed a curt response: “I divorced Erik Scott because he was an angry and violent man with erratic behavior who abused steroids and acquired a serious addiction to pain killers. I’m not the least bit surprised about what happened; He was on an extremely destructive path when I left him and I never expected Erik to live to see 40.”
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And no, im not a jerk. And i’m not insulting his character. But it’s extremely easy to look and see numerous non-cop people who knew him *and liked or loved him*, quoted by several different papers as saying that say he was on pain pills following an accident, and that he was a bodybuilder that used steroids. (according to his father who testified that he used human grown hormone under a doctor’s supervision) I’m giving the guy the benefit of the doubt,,, i think his meds and steroids, combined with a mind bendingly hot day in Las Vegas, to somehow make him unstable and erratic. Even dehydration comes to mind considering his behaviors,,
Sad outcome,, but that’s all, only sad. Despite his condition, whatever it was,,,, mentally erratic people will never get much latitude with a gun in a busy store. For all i know, in his confused state, he pulled out the gun to give to the officer. Anyone in their right mind would know to never touch a gun when confronted by officers. Thats another reason i vote that he was off the rails mentally that day,,, Glad no bystanders got hurt.
I disagree.
And i’m not insulting his character
No, you tossed out a barb at fellow Freepers. That's why I said what I did.
Have a nice day.
Another small detail but worthy of being included in your synopsis, I think.
UNTIL those tapes ARE released,
we have NO reason to BELIEVE anybody.
Period.
BTW ‘mentally erratic’ is shooting someone four times in the back, and at least once while the victim is laying on the ground.
I THINK the failure of the metro police dept to honor the investigation and subpoenas shows they have everything to hide.
And MY line of thinking is based on the facts.........
Here are some important facts:
1 - The cops confronted Scott in a crowd, although he was NOT acting erratically. How do I know? Because Mosher was looking for an erratic gunman, and he let Scott walk past him with no idea that Scott was the psycho. This was 6 second, IIRC, before they shot Scott. If Scott was the weirdo you suggest, why were Las Vegas’s finest unable to detect him 6 seconds prior to shooting?
2 - From the first word spoken by a cop to the first shot was, according to the DA, TWO SECONDS! So less than two seconds after Mosher started saying his first word, Mosher started pulling the trigger. Just how was Scott supposed to do ANYTHING in under TWO SECONDS?
Darn right he didn’t drop to the ground. It wasn’t physically possible to do so between the end of the first sentence spoken and the time Mosher opened fire.
Dude, that is murder. Scott did NOT have a gun in his hand. It was found holstered, and it would not have been possible to fire the gun without first removing it from the holster. Scott would probably have needed to rack the slide, or at least draw, take off the safety, pull the hammer back, and then fire.
He had roughly one third the time it takes to read the sentence above. Less than 2 seconds from first spoken word to bullet on the way.
That isn’t something some cop hater claims. That is what the DA says happened. And that is murder. Not manslaughter, but murder by a trigger happy cop.
The dog charged him, and he pulled the gun in self-defense but didn't shoot.
The difference between Erik Scott and a police officer? A police officer would have shot the dog.