“The last witness to testify at the coroners inquest was Barbara Fee, who was waiting in line with her granddaughter when they were told to evacuate the store.
Her granddaughter pointed out that there was an officer with a gun by the door.
Fee said she heard the officer yelling at Scott to get down, but he didn’t.
She saw Scott reach for something on his side and then bring his right hand up and point something directly at the officer.
Fee said she couldn’t tell what was in Scott’s hand, but his hand was pointed, “directly at the cop.”
The officer fired, and she looked away while pushing her granddaughter behind her, Fee said.
When she looked back, she saw Scott face-down on the ground and a black object on the ground.
Fee said she was worried Scott was going to shoot the officer.
“I was hoping he wasn’t going to shoot the cop, but with a gesture like that I thought somebody was going to get shot,” she said.
She told police after the shooting that she didn’t think the officer had any option to shoot Scott.
“Thank God the officer was faster,” she said in her statement to police.”
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This woman, and all the costco people who said he was acting erratic, and throwing things around off the shelves, ripping open boxes,,,
Oh, and his girlfriend who accompanied him didnt bother to come testify.
Supporting CCW does not mean that he was some harmless guy. An otherwise nice guy can have some episode causing mental confusion, erratic behavior etc. The FR cop hating brigade aside,, a lot of non cop people in that store were freaked out fightened of him. That happens for a reason. And vegas is not like Manhattan where everyone faints dead away at the sight of a gun.
This case isn’t the “cause” that some people wish it was. Being a wonderful honorable soldier once, doesn’t mean that person remains decent, sane, or in other good health forever.
You sir or madame, are a jerk.
Imagine, most cops go their entire careers without discharging their weapons once.
Jensen testified that Scott didn’t have a permit to carry the gun that was in his pocket when he was shot.
Scott carried a Ruger .380 semi-automatic handgun and a .45-caliber Kimber single-action pistol. The Kimber was found in its holster not far from where Scott’s body landed after he was shot. The Ruger was found in Scott’s clothing as he was being taken to the hospital.
Scott had a concealed carry permit and seven gun registrations in his wallet, but the permit didn’t include the Ruger.
“That’s a felony crime in Nevada,” Jensen said.
The permit did list a .380 Kel Tec, which is similar.
Jensen also testified that Scott was not a Green Beret and had not served overseas in the military.
Costco employee Shai Lierley previously testified that Scott said he was a Green Beret when he was told his gun was not allowed in the store.
Jensen said when he interviewed Scott’s girlfriend, he asked if Scott was a Green Beret. She told him he had done some stuff “they don’t talk about.”
Jensen said he checked out Scott’s DD-214 separation papers from the military.
“We found he had no special forces training and wasn’t a Green Beret,” Jensen said. Jensen said they also found Scott was honorably discharged in 1996.
The final witness Tuesday was Coroner Mike Murphy, who testified that the family was told more than once how to provide the names of witnesses to bring to the inquest but had not done so.
Goodman previously indicated that the family was withholding its witnesses until there was a fair hearing into the shooting. More than 60 witnesses testified during the six days of the inquest.
Goodman indicated that the family would be seeking punitive damages in the federal lawsuit.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/sep/28/jury-shooting-justified/
Two doctors testified on Wednesday that they treated Erik Scott for pain-related issues months before he was shot and killed by Las Vegas Metro police outside of a Costco store in Summerlin.
The first day of a coroner’s inquest into Scott’s death focused largely on the 38-year-old’s drug history and the amount of chemicals found in his body during an autopsy.
Kim followed Dr. Shari Klein, who also treated Scott for about two years until late 2009. Klein was questioned about Scott’s prescription drug use and his past use of anabolic steroids.
Olson also testified about chemicals found in Scott’s blood. There were no traces of illegal narcotics, Olson said, but she did find several other drugs, including Xanax, Adderall and morphine, for which Scott had prescriptions, along with hydromorphone, commonly known as Dilaudid.
Much of Olson’s testimony focused on what she described as lethal amounts of Xanax and morphine in Scott’s system. It’s possible, she said, that he developed a strong tolerance to the drugs.
http://www.fox5vegas.com/news/25117934/detail.html
Scott had huge amounts of illegally obtained painkillers and Xanax in his system. He was in no condition to be out in public and he knew it. It's too bad the people closest to him chose to be enablers rather than getting him help.
That should read "The FR cop-ABUSE hating brigade aside."
I think we can all agree that we are against police abuse.
This is why I'm alarmed at the ever-increasing incidents of police abuse: The police are union personnel, protected and embraced by the Democrat party. It's like having a political police force, which is exactly what the SS and Gestapo were in Nazi Germany. I'm not at all in favor of a political police nor the arrogance associated with such a force. Arrogance such as appeared in the original posting above:
Amazingly, Metro officers, through their union, have announced that they will not cooperate with investigations, will not honor subpoenas, and will not testify, implying that they will simply take the 5th at best if they decide to bother to show up. And they mean this to apply not only to officers who are actually involved in a shooting, but officers who are merely witnesses.
try throwing some facts into your statement.