Posted on 03/03/2006 7:02:52 AM PST by bulldozer
HOMER -- A Minnesota fugitive wanted on drug charges pulled a handgun during an attempted arrest at the Homer airport Wednesday, touching off a gunfight that left him dead in the parking lot, Alaska State Troopers said. His two-year-old son remained in critical condition Thursday night from a bullet through the head.
Troopers are investigating the shootout involving U.S. marshals and Homer police outside the airport terminal, which was crowded with high-schoolers and their parents.
Jason Karlo Jacob Anderson, 31, of Duluth, Minn., had been living under an alias in Alaska with his girlfriend and their two small children for nearly a year, according to the girlfriend. He was wanted on federal drug trafficking charges involving methamphetamines and cocaine.
Two-year-old Jason Anderson II was under intensive care at Providence Hospital Thursday after being flown to Anchorage for surgery, according to his mother, Cherry Dietzmann.
The boy was shot while sitting in a car seat in the back of his father's rented Jeep, she said. The bullet entered the back of his head and exited through his face, destroying an eye. Doctors gave him only a small chance of survival, she said.
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These air marshals were a bunch of idiots to do this knowing there were two small children in the rental jeep. They ended up blowing off the back of the head of the two year old boy.
Ping
Yeah, they should have just let him go into the crowded airport, knowing he was armed and dangerous. :^O
"He'd say, 'If you call the cops, I'm killing the kids.'
But she says he was a "good dad in a lot of ways". I'm sorry, this woman is to blame for what happened to her child. Everyone goes to sleep at some point. If he didn't keep her and the children locked in cages there is no excuse for her negligence.
Absolutely!! You don't start a gunfight in a public place. I can understand that they didn't want him to get away, but this is just plain stupid.
Yet another innocent killed (not yet) by JBT's
Anderson pulled up in the rental lot about 100 feet from the small terminal and called the agent on his cell phone, asking him to bring out the keys for the new car because he had his children with him.
Anderson wasn’t going into the crowded airport.
Uhhhh, yeah. All they had to do was pull up behind the guy and he started shooting at them. Plenty of time for the cops to use to their advantage. JBT's indeed.
I really hope you forgot the /sarcasm tag ... it'd be a pity if you were really that stupid.
They should have just backed off and waited for a new opportunity to catch him," said Dietzmann, 20, who described fleeing from Anderson repeatedly because of physical abuse. In the end, she helped federal marshals track him down. "I told them if you do it this way, he's going to freak and people are going to be hurt. They didn't take me seriously."
"I told them everything," she said. "I told them if you do it this way, it's going to go good. If you do it this way, it's going to go bad. They did everything wrong."
YOU are the idiot sir.
Anderson pulled up in the rental lot about 100 feet from the small terminal and called the agent on his cell phone, asking him to bring out the keys for the new car because he had his children with him. Law enforcement officers in the parking lot then drove up behind and in front of the black Jeep. Anderson pulled a gun and shooting started, troopers said
I really hope you forgot the /sarcasm tag ... it'd be a pity if you were really that stupid.
Anderson pulled up in the rental lot about 100 feet from the terminal and called the agent on his cell phone, asking him to bring out the keys for the new car because he had his children with him. Officers in the parking lot then drove up on both sides of the Jeep and gunfire broke out.Minneapolis Star Tribune article
They just didn’t pull up behind – the marshals pulled up on both sides of the jeep to box him in.
Randy Johnson, U.S. Marshal for the Alaska district, confirmed Thursday that Dietzmann had been cooperating with his agency. Because she was essentially a victim of the shootout, the federal agents cannot get in direct contact with her during the state troopers investigation, Johnson said. He said marshals were talking to state child protection officers and sorting through a complex set of protective regulations. But Johnson said he was assigning a deputy to help Dietzmann. "We want to do whatever we could to help that young lady," he said. "We want to help her get the kids where she wants them to be."
I DONT THINK DEAD OR PERMANTLY BRAIN DAMAGED IS WHERE SHE WANTED THE KIDS TO BE
The only idiot I see involved with this story is you! How dare you blame the air marshals for this tragedy!! The boy's life would not be ruined if the idiot father was a) not a criminal, b) did not have the boy with him, and c) did not pull a gun when he was obviously surrounded. I guarantee the air marshals feel horrible about the little boy. They don't need some knuckle-head, cop-hating armchair quarterback spewing accusations to make 'em feel worse.
And he started shooting.
The dead guy is the one who's to blame.
It really is a pity....
Who continued with a takedown that never went according to plan
You gotta wonder sometimes, don't ya?
Ever heard of the word "projection," Mr. Kaczynski?
Most likely a law enforcement official who has a right to defend himself. Gosh, maybe next time the authorities can call a "Time out!" and go check to see if there's a kid in the vehicle.
So do you have wireless or high-speed connectivity in your bunker?
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