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APD: Man shot dead by police pointed gun at bus (NM, Graphic lapel cam footage)
The Albuquerque Journal ^
| February 14, 2020
| Elise Kaplan
Posted on 02/15/2020 2:43:01 PM PST by CedarDave
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Police say Orlando Abeyta pointed what looked like a gun at passengers on an Albuquerque Rapid Transit bus just a couple of hours before two members of the police department’s gang unit saw him threatening people sitting at another bus stop on Central near San Pedro last month.
The officers fired 10 times and struck 28-year-old Abeyta four times. He died at the scene. Next to him they found what turned out to be a BB gun.
In a news conference Friday morning, Lt. Scott Norris of the Albuquerque Police Department’s Violent Crimes Section, laid out the events that led up to the Jan. 6 shooting.
Norris said shortly before 3 p.m., detectives with the gang unit who were conducting an undercover operation in the area saw Abeyta waving what appeared to be a handgun in the intersection and approaching people on the south side of Central.
Detective Adrian Montoya and officer Bryce Willsey pulled up as Abeyta crossed Central toward a bus stop on the north side of the street and appeared to wave a handgun at a woman in “an aggressive manner.”
Video of the incident shows both Montoya and Willsey stopping their vehicles in the bus lane and getting out, ordering Abeyta to drop the gun and get on the ground. Norris said Abeyta instead pointed the gun at the officers and that’s when they opened fire about 80 feet from him.
(Excerpt) Read more at abqjournal.com ...
TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: abeyta; banglist; crime; newmexico; orlandoabeyta; police; shooting
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To: Deaf Smith
What did you do with the B.B. gun?
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posted on
02/15/2020 4:27:41 PM PST
by
Redcitizen
(Nobody needs a 10 round magazine. You need a 30 round magazine.)
To: Bell Bouy II
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posted on
02/15/2020 4:34:55 PM PST
by
Bratch
(“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: CedarDave
“Next to him they found what turned out to be a BB gun. “
play stupid games, win stupid prizes ...
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posted on
02/15/2020 4:38:29 PM PST
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: Redcitizen
It is still in a drawer in my work bench.
Never got around to destroying it.
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posted on
02/15/2020 5:38:00 PM PST
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
To: CedarDave
Central and San Pedro, that’s a nice area of town.
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posted on
02/15/2020 5:41:24 PM PST
by
wjcsux
(Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself.)
To: Bratch
we have a new meme, death by BB gun.
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posted on
02/15/2020 5:43:16 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
To: yarddog
Yeah, she was just putting BB’s in the air.
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posted on
02/15/2020 5:53:20 PM PST
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
To: wjcsux
Central and San Pedro, that’s a nice area of town.You forgot the /s symbol!
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posted on
02/15/2020 5:58:54 PM PST
by
CedarDave
(Democrats are the Granola Party -full of fruits, nuts and flakes. And they lie, that's who they are.)
To: null and void
10 shots 4 hits at 80 feet.
***********
I wonder what the other 6 shots hit?
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posted on
02/15/2020 6:04:19 PM PST
by
deport
To: deport
That vehicle that drove into the line of fire.
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posted on
02/15/2020 6:36:34 PM PST
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
To: Bratch
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posted on
02/15/2020 7:40:48 PM PST
by
Bratch
(“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: yarddog
Me too. Colt CO2 bb pistol looks just like a .380 mustang.
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posted on
02/15/2020 9:03:48 PM PST
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: null and void
Except they both had rifles and there was no incoming.
A lot of activity behind him too.
I wasn't there but...
40% at 25 yds is really, really bad.
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posted on
02/15/2020 9:16:04 PM PST
by
Eagles6
To: Eagles6
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posted on
02/15/2020 9:18:21 PM PST
by
null and void
(The democrats just can't get over the fact that they lost an election they themselves rigged!)
To: Deaf Smith
Why destroy it?
Why take it?
Not saying you shouldn't have. She could have ended up like this guy.
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posted on
02/15/2020 9:19:37 PM PST
by
Eagles6
To: Eagles6
Anything that looks just like a firearm has to be treated as such.
This looked just like a 1911 but could never be one.
Kind of like the ladies who keep a BB gun to scare off bad actors...bad idea.
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posted on
02/16/2020 6:09:29 AM PST
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
To: deport
They went flying across San Pedro where vehicles were stopped at the light. A miracle they didn’t kill anyone else with the misses. Just damn. I bet some rounds struck vehicles on San Pedro. Have to watch that again. I used to live in ABQ.
SS1
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posted on
02/16/2020 6:18:42 AM PST
by
Spitzensparkin1
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