Watch for the anti-2nd crowd to seize on this, in the current news climate.
Prayers up for the family...
Only cops should have guns... Clearly.
Prayers for that family. Its a terrible tragedy.
If you are armed, you should tell you family and friends to always call before showing up unexpectedly, especially when you are not at home.
One of the cardinal gun safety rules: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.
Waaayyyy too few details to even comment.
Other than the fact there are far few details.
“Troopers say Leach used his department-issued .45-caliber Glock handgun in the shooting. He was hospitalized after the shooting.”
Odd. Maybe they had to tranquilize him.
Also odd is why he wouldn’t recognize his own son. Did he just shoot through the door ?
Too little info, too many questions.
Classic example of how training cops to shoot first and ask questions later is a bad bad bad idea. This whole emphasis on “officer safety” (code words for I’ll drop the trigger if I even slightly feel threatened as going home and get my fat juicy retirement are far more important than any civilians life, besides the thin blue line will have my back if I screw up and off some innocent dude) in cop training today needs to change. But I doubt that it will, too bad for the son.
He musta thought it was a dog at the door.....
Michael Leach, of Rochester, was staying at the Clark Beach Motel in Old Forge, Wyoming County.
The 59-year-old and his son were part of a group of police officers who had driven to the area on motorcycles for a long-weekend getaway.
‘It was just a group of guys coming to have a good time,’ motel owner Dan Rivet Jr told uticaod.com.
‘We have very little violence in Old Forge.’
Leach was disturbed by someone coming into his room shortly after midnight.
Believing the disturbance to be an intruder Leach grabbed his police department-issued .45-caliber Glock handgun and opened fire.
After realising his error the 59-year-old called 911 and reported the shooting.
37-year-old Matthew Leach was pronounced dead at St Elizabeth’s Hospital and his father was taken to St Luke’s Hospital for mental support.
Maybe his son was serving a “no-knock warrant”.
I think police should not have guns, when, they face a situation requiring an armed force, they should have to call on armed citizens to handle the response.
Sad. RIP.