He's dead, Whitby!
Posted on 07/22/2005 12:29:29 PM PDT by Born Conservative
LONDON — Eyewitnesses to the killing of a suspected bomber in London said the man looked “petrified” as he sought to escape the clutches of police.
Mark Whitby said he was sitting on the Tube at Stockwell Station (search) on Friday when the man ran in to the train car. “As he ran, he was hotly pursued by what I knew to be three plain-clothes police officers,” Whitby told BBC News 24.
"As the man got on the train I looked at his face. He looked from left to right, but he basically looked like a cornered rabbit, like a cornered fox,” Whitby said. "He looked absolutely petrified.”
"He half-tripped, was half-pushed to the floor,” Whitby said. "One of the police officers was holding a black automatic pistol in his left hand. They held it down to him and unloaded five shots into him. I saw it. He's dead, five shots, he's dead."
Teri Godly, who was also in the train car when the suspected bomber boarded, said eight or nine police officers with shotguns boarded after him and started shouting at passengers to get out.
"People started screaming and we all started running quite calmly up the stairs. There were six or seven gun shots behind us. It was very surreal. No one was pushing or shoving. We were in a state of shock,” Godly said. "It was only afterwards that I realized how lucky we had been."
Chris Wells, a 28-year-old company manager, said he was traveling on the Victoria Line (search) towards Vauxhall when he left the train at Stockwell.
He saw about 20 police officers, some of them armed, rushing into the station before a man jumped over the barriers with police giving chase.
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Pity.
Ha, a terrified, terrorist.
Allah is not going to be pleased with him!
LOL - that might actually be their version of paradise!
I'm sure that you, after seeing an event like this, would stroll to the nearest restaurant for a leisurely breakfast. Give the guy a break -- it'd shock hell out of anybody.
And quite hot and bothered.
I would like to hear what caused this incident. If this was a terrorist, and I have no reason at this point to think otherwise, good for the police.
With such an incident though, full disclosure would be a good idea if it didn't impact an ongoing investigation or jeopardize public safety.
This was an interesting event to say the least.
Criminal profiling at its best.
Huh--uh, no virgins, no jihad---didn't follow procedures---didn't take anyone with him---failed to fight the cops to the death. Went straight to hell on the spot. Best he can hope for now is being buried under a little holy dirt.
I think they actually get one seventy-two-year-old virgin and seventy-one mother-in-laws!
More like a rat.
I was just making light of the fact that Britain was previously "gun free" (so to speak), and now that they are facing this terrorism, the guns of law enforcement are coming out in the open.
xactly.
Petrified, but running from the cops??
Seems like it would be hard to do both at the same time.
Never, ever run from the cops.
When they tell you to stop you better damm sure STOP.
If they tell you get your hands up just do it.
As "hyper" as the Brits have to be right now I cannot blame the police at all.
I'm still waiting to hear if he was carrying a bomb or not.
Agreed. It sounds liek tehy killed him not because he might get away, but because they thought he might detonate a bomb. But I've heard nothing yet confirming this guy had a bomb. I don't think running is a killing offense, but his terror indicates something was going on.
He's dead, Whitby!
I'd like to know why he was running from the police (obviously a fatal decision on his part).
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