Posted on 08/27/2012 10:08:54 PM PDT by george76
The brother of a Navy veteran shot by a deputy in her own backyard wants the sheriff's department to admit its mistake and take responsibility for the incident.
Jennifer Orey, 36, was shot Sunday in a surprise encounter with two sheriff's deputies who were searching for a man reportedly in the area wearing a ski mask, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Orey was in her pajamas in her yard around 10:30 p.m. because she heard noises and thought it was her ex-husband, the newspaper reports.
Orey and Deputy Luke Berhalter came in contact and the officer's firearm discharged at point-blank range, her brother James Morgan told local Fox 5 News.
"He fired without warning, saying freeze, or anything. Then just as she saw the black smoke coming out the barrel she turned her body," Morgan said. "The bullet went through her chest and her left nipple, into her shoulder and out her pinkie."
The deputy reportedly told her, "I'm sorry, you startled me,"
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she was the first woman in the Navy to earn her wings of gold as a search and rescue swimmer, was released from hospital.
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Seriously, nobody could possibly write something as stupid as you did and not be kidding...
...you are kidding, right?
I guess she would have been smart by staying inside her home and be more protected that way???
Now, be honest here Rawhide, I’ve seen your posts for a long time on FR, and you make some pretty good points from what I;ve seen over that time...
Put yourself in that situation and tell me you would absolutely NOT investigate noises around your home at night???
I bet you’d have your own bang stick ready to go while doing so...
Remember, be honest, because I know you’re smarter than that...
Really?
When I hear a noise in my backyard, I don’t cower and call 911. I check it out.
She was in her own yard doing nothing illegal.
If you consider shooting a non-threatening person, IN THEIR OWN YARD, as “not surprising”, then you have very low exepctations of law enforcement officers.
Yeah. How dumb -- especially after you've been in the armed forces -- to go out in your own backyard. At 10:30 at night, no less! Why, that's almost morning! Stupid, stupid, stupid.
No. You should always cower in your house and wait for the jack-booted authorities to show up! That's the American way.
Can you possibly be serious? Look, she didn't screw up -- the cop did. Period.
Sue him and his training officer.
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