Posted on 05/20/2007 7:22:40 AM PDT by teacherwoes
MOSCOW, Idaho -- Moscow Asst. Police Chief David Duke confirm that the Moscow Police Dept. is in a standoff with a sniper at the First Presbyterian Church in Moscow, Idaho after shooting 3 people including 2 law officers at the Latah Co. Court House.
DETAILS: Police talk to KREM 2 NEWS about what has happened The Sniper unleashed more than 75 rounds on the courthouse from the church around 11pm Saturday night, which is located across the street from the courthouse at 5th and Van Buren.
Police are telling all residents in the nearby neighborhood to remain indoors while they handle the situation. More than 50 police officers and sheriff deputies surround the church with the sniper inside.
Wounded in the shooting was a Moscow Police Officer, a Latah County Sheriff's Deputy. and 1 civilians. The civilians was shot in the hand and foot, but the extent of the other injuries is not known.
I would prefer a separation of school and government. Even though schools have been quasi governmental (ie they collected taxes) for somewhat over 100 years, it's only since the 1930s or so that local governments, mostly county and state level at first, with the feds sticking their nose in where they have no delegated authority to do so, being in the 1950s in a small way, and then with both feet and rear end too, starting in the late '60s or so.
” Through all this firing of 180+ rounds, the police never fired their weapons, and waited four hours after the last shot was fired (apparently by the perp when he shot himself) before “storming” the church.”
Not unlike the Virginia Tech incedent where the police surrounded the building and waited for the perp to run out of ammo and people to kill.
My comment was based on incorrect info from "FromMoscow". The actual details on the suspect were very different from what was originally claimed.
That was the first Moscow LEO killed in the line of duty in around 110 years. Prayers for the family.
When I heard he killed his wife AND that she worked as a janitorial employee in the courthouse, another possibility arose. It may have been a jealous husband killing his cheating wife and going after the office where the "other party" works. Choosing a violent solution wouldn't be out of character given his prior record.
I agree with you- I would like them to be more seperate as well-
But, the school system is not the issue here- unless I have missed something?
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