Posted on 05/31/2009 12:37:08 PM PDT by upchuck
The suspect in this morning's fatal shooting of George Tiller is in custody, according to emergency dispatchers.
Authorities have yet to release more information about the arrest. Wichita police have scheduled a 4 p.m. news conference to discuss the case.
Police had said they were looking for white male who was driving a 1990s powder blue Ford Taurus with Kansas license plate 225 BAB. The vehicle is registered to an owner in Merriam, which is in the Kansas City area.
Wichita police Capt. Brent Allred said that several law enforcement agencies -- including the FBI and the KBI -- have been called in to help with the case.
"This is going to be a larger search than probably maybe just Wichita that we're looking for this individual," Allred said. "So we've got the resources coming in to help us with this investigation."
Allred said that no one else was injured in the shooting. He would not say how many shots were fired. He said it's unclear whether the shooter exchanged any words with the victim.
"We've got several people going downtown," Allred said. "This is going to be an investigation that is going to take a little while to get some of that information out."
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
Odd license plate number. 225 BAB. Could have been Tiller’s tally.
You'd think that even an amateur assassin would know to use or stolen car — or to make their escape on a bicycle.
That was fast!...:^
It would have been better for the pro-life movement if this fool offed himself. Now there will be a trial and all this opportunity for the media to paint the pro-life movement’s public image for years. I can’t believe the fools on here celebrating this.
Yes it was. Hats off to the cops.
When I read he had been killed, nary a tear popped into my eyes. I can’t help but think he’s been paid back for the hundreds of infants he has butchered. Hope he enjoys hell. Too bad, he could have actually saved people instead of killing infants.
I hope that the perp gets away.
You throw the word, “Fool,” around rather freely, don’t you?
where do you see anyone celebrating it?
Yeah, wait until you find out this guy’s a staunch Democrat. He voted Obama.
Don’t lie to yourself like this. This guy is a rabid left-winger.
Don’t doubt it.
Our we sure this was the motive?
In a slow month, maybe.
The case became a cause célèbre for both supporters and opponents of abortion rights. Columnist Jack Cashill compared the trial to the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals, while NYU Professor Jacob Appel described Tiller as "a genuine hero who ranks alongside Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King Jr. in the pantheon of defenders of human liberty."
On March 27, 2009, Tiller was found not guilty of all 19 misdemeanor charges stemming from some abortions he performed at his Wichita clinic in 2003. (Who ever said they had intelligent jurors in Kansas)
NYU Professor Jacob Appel is sick.
My guess is he knew he would be caught. Probably he just didn’t want to surrender on the spot.
So Tiller is killed in a Lutheran church. I wonder how he rationalized what he was doing with the Christian faith. It seems to me he was outside the pale of any possible interpretation of Christianity.
Kids are being shot down in Chicago daily. I don’t see any thing close to this by law enforcement to catch the perpetrators. Maybe there’s special rules for white male abortionists.
Kids are being shot down in Chicago daily. I don’t see any thing close to this by law enforcement to catch the perpetrators. Maybe there’s special rules for white male abortionists.
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