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Posted on 10/29/2024 12:29:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Monterey County district attorney's office has released new information regarding an incident that resulted in Carmel police shooting and killing an armed suspect Friday.
James Marshall, 27, of Carmel, was seen roaming the streets of Carmel-by-the-Sea with what appeared to be a long rifle before being confronted by three Carmel police officers, including the police chief, on a property on Monte Verde Street.
The weapon Marshall was threatening neighbors with appeared to be an AK-47-style rifle. The district attorney's office said it was a BB gun that looked like a real assault rifle.
Photo of the alleged gunman in Carmel-by-the-Sea.Armed Carmel man roaming streets killed after police shooting, deputies say Carmel police received a call from a person who said that their neighbor had brandished a rifle at them.
The suspect's mother called 911, saying her son was having a breakdown and wanted to die by police, per a deputy spokesperson. She also told police her son was armed with a firearm.
Berkley Brannon, chief assistant district attorney, said officers confronted Marshall at the property.
Witnesses recall moments before a rifle-wielding man roaming the streets was killed in Carmel by policeDeadly police shooting shocks Carmel community This was after officers tried using beanbag rounds from a launcher at the threshold to the yard. However, Marshall used a door that he had taken off its hinges as a shield.
"They were ordering him, 'Put the weapon down. Get down, get down, get down!' He wouldn't do that. What he did do was he essentially pushed the door towards the officers. The officer with the beanbag launcher then approached him much closer," said Brannon.
The Carmel police Paul Tomasi was at the scene telling Marshall to put down the crowbar and that nobody wanted to shoot him.
Marshall was holding a three-foot crowbar and charged at the officers in the backyard of the home.
That's when one officer, not the police chief, fired six rounds at Marshall. One of those rounds got through a bulletproof vest he was wearing and appeared to be the shot that killed him, per Brannon. He fell to the ground 40 seconds after the shots were fired.
"A search of the home showed significant signs of mental illness inside because there were all sorts of damage to doors, thresholds of doors, damage from BB rounds, it would appear, knife damage," said Brannon. "In addition to that, you've got foil on windows, you've got corrugated tin barriers. And then written signs everywhere. When I say that, I mean, these are pieces of paper that are taped up all over. Maybe a paper plate, maybe a paper towel, all with messages posted everywhere."
His room was an outbuilding on the property with damage similar to that seen inside the home, as well as similar writing on doors and walls, which Brannon said showed signs of a degree of mental illness.
Brannon said he has not interviewed the individual officers yet. That's scheduled for Tuesday. The information his office has gathered is from body camera footage.
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Another result of psychiatric medications. People go for help and instead are put on debilitating drugs, proven to cause these episodes. Every crazed shooter is on these drugs.
Because he wasn’t trained in A,A gun said Mel Tillis
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Wasn’t Baltimore pretty peaceful in the ‘50s, too?
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