Police Shoot Dead Grandfather, 72, While Searching the Wrong Home for Burglar

http://www.theblaze.com ^ | 07/27/2013 | Jason Howerton

[redreno]

Police in Fort Worth, Texas, are blaming “poor lighting” after two officers went to the wrong home in search of a possible burglar and ended up shooting a 72-year-old man dead in his garage. The officers, who are both in their first year with Fort Worth PD, were responding to a burglary alarm on May 28 when the tragic mistake occurred.

“Due to poor lighting conditions, and officers attempting to arrive on the scene undetected,” the cops approached the home of Jerry Waller by mistake, according to an affidavit. The house they were actually supposed to go to was across the street.

[Errant]

Sounds like the police really did act stupidly...

[EEGator]

Wonderful. /s

[GeronL]

They shot a dead man?

//I know I know

[TheMom]

I clicked on this thread because I wanted to read how the shot a dead grandfather.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I guess we won’t be seeing any “Justice for Grandpa” rallies in 100 cities though, huh?

[C210N]

Police Shoot Dead Grandfather, 72, While Searching the Wrong Home for Burglar...

What I'd like to know is, if the Grandfather was dead, why did Police shoot him?

[Chode]

poor bastard might be alive if he only had a dog...

[South40]

Sounds justified. He probably drew down on them. /s

[South40]

Practice?

[KoRn]

So they shot a dead guy? (what horrific writing)

Do they have an editor of any kind? Do they read their “work” before submitting it?

[Mouton]

Did they get the dog too???

[GeronL]

Stupid headline writers can at least be entertaining

[Slings and Arrows]

But the officers got to go home at the end of their shift, that's the important thing. </sarc>

[C210N]

I thought it was just an example of some form of vicious homicidal necrophilia

[Revolting cat!]

What’s the news then, if the grandfather was already dead?

[KarlInOhio]

Oh, if only someone would invent a device which can provide a map for the police. Or maybe the cops could remember the even/odd pattern most cities follow for the sides of the streets.

[PA Engineer]

Practice?

Obamacare.

[TArcher]

Who shot Jason Howerton’s editor?

[Jeff Head]

Is this the actual title? It says in the title that they shot a Dead Grandfather. While horrible to contemplate, it is not nearly as tragic as what they actually did in shooting an innocent man, a grandfather, dead because they went to the wrong house.

This type of thing happens far too often. Growing up in the late 50s through the 60s, you almost never heard of any such thing. Even the 70s and 80s it was rare. Now it seems to happen all the time.