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Navy Veteran Shot & Wounded By Police While Testing Shotgun In Backyard
CBS Baltimore ^ | March 29, 2013 | Mike Schuh

Posted on 03/31/2013 6:56:34 PM PDT by Ken H

BALTIMORE (WJZ)—A 24-year-old Navy veteran is in intensive care after being shot by city police Thursday night. His family tells WJZ that he was testing out a shotgun after being the victim of a home invasion.

Mike Schuh spoke exclusively to the man’s father.

Police say officers responded to reports of shots fired Thursday night outside a home in the 8700-block of Danville Avenue.

“They went to the rear of the location to investigate. They encountered an individual that was armed with a shotgun. During the course of that encounter, one of our officers discharged, striking the suspect,” said Sgt. Eric Kowalczyk, police spokesman.

Shot above his heart was 24-year-old Navy veteran Nick Romano. The police bullet exited his back. His spleen was removed at the hospital.

(Excerpt) Read more at baltimore.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: baltimore; banglist; donutwatch; guncontrol; nickromano; secondamendment
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To: ladyjane
Not having an editor is definitely an issue.

I've been there. (Who'd have wanted to be married to Elinore anyway?)

61 posted on 03/31/2013 8:17:46 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: RetiredTexasVet

I would agree, but these days...half the articles in newspapers are that way. Journalism in college isn’t much to brag about.


62 posted on 03/31/2013 8:22:19 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Ken H

While reading the Baltocbs.com story, I noticed an ad for “Gino’s” hamburgers, etc.

Man, does that bring back memories from the 60’s. We had BurgerChef, Harley’s Steak and Cheese (with onions), Gino’s and AMECHE’S with its drive-in speaker service and the special Ameche sauce on a double beef patty. Now that was good food.

In the early 1960’s, our boys club had Gino Marchetti come to speak to us (as had Johnny U and Art Donovan). I was chosen to escort him into the school (#64) where we held our meetings.

Gino, looking good as always, comes up to the school in his Cadillac convertible, top down, with his beautiful wife (long blonde hair) and his even more beautiful daughter, also with long sandy-colored hair.

I got to escort Mr. Marchetti to the meeting, but I was really saddened to see his wife and daughter drive away as I was going to invite them to come in too.

So close it hurt!!!!!

PS: I have to copies of the Colts team photo from 1957, an ad for Ameche’s drive-in, Johnny U’s autograph, and the guide book for bowling at Johnny’s lanes.

One of our friends at City (Class 62), Alex Spassoff, was the son of the trainer of the championship Colts. After school he would head over to Memorial Station, a couple hundred yards away, and wait for his father to finish work so that they could go home together.

Alex, I hope you kept you autograph collection and that fabulous White and Blue Colts leather jacket.

Those were the days!


63 posted on 03/31/2013 8:27:29 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Ken H

Spleen removal should be a capital crime.


64 posted on 03/31/2013 8:30:04 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Ken H
“... one of our officers discharged, striking the suspect,” said Sgt. Eric Kowalczyk, police spokesman.

More corruption of the English language to obfuscate what happened.

The officer referenced shot Nick Romano. Simple statement of fact. To say the officer "discharged" makes it sound like he loaded his pants on-scene. Although, maybe he did that, too.

65 posted on 03/31/2013 8:30:43 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
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To: bigheadfred
Soooo, since this was shotgun, it was Biden’s fault.

Taking advice from a Democrat, but especially Biden, one is literally taking one's life in their hands.....
66 posted on 03/31/2013 8:30:48 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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To: bigheadfred

Obviously there was no reason to remove his spleen; there never is, but they always do it.

Even if damaged, spleens heal within hours usually.


67 posted on 03/31/2013 8:31:37 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: vette6387

>> “Either the bullet entered below the heart or the reporter is stupid!” <<

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Neither. - the surgeon is evil and greedy. there is never a reason to remove a spleen.


68 posted on 03/31/2013 8:33:18 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: DBrow
...the bullet went “down” into the torso, entering above the heart, going under the sternum, and puncturing the spleen, on the left side under the ribcage.

Call the Warren Commison.

We have another "Magic Bullet"
69 posted on 03/31/2013 8:34:57 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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To: Ken H

Is anyone surprised that shooting a shotgun in the backyard of rowhouses in a major city is going to attract the police?


70 posted on 03/31/2013 8:38:49 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: Clay Moore
My guess is the first shot(s) missed and he was ducking and running when he got hit.

Hard to square that with an entrance wound to the chest and an exit wound to the back.

My guess is that he was shot from above while trying to comply with instructions to get on the ground.

71 posted on 03/31/2013 8:40:59 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: RedMonqey

Hey I’ve always wanted to be a “journalist”!


72 posted on 03/31/2013 8:46:38 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: Ken H
Link with video spleening deyselves:

Navy Veteran Shot & Wounded By Police While Testing Shotgun In Backyard
March 29, 2013 5:31 PM
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/03/29/man-shot-wounded-by-officer-in-southeast-baltimore/

73 posted on 03/31/2013 8:51:21 PM PDT by haffast (Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. -Abe Lincoln)
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To: vette6387
Either the bullet entered below the heart or the reporter is stupid!

Or he was shot more than once.

74 posted on 03/31/2013 8:59:33 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: haffast
From the looks of that neighborhood, and knowing it is an eastern liberal cesspool, you have to wonder why the guy thoughty he could just go out back and crank off a couple rounds.

The surprise is that SWAT did not come crashing in with tanks and helos................

75 posted on 03/31/2013 9:02:17 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: All

Article also states that 4 bullet holes were found in the back yard.

I’ve fired at the ground before. Unless it’s a slug in moss, you’re not gonna find that hole.


76 posted on 03/31/2013 9:08:17 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: bigheadfred

Absolutely!


77 posted on 03/31/2013 9:08:29 PM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: ladyjane
Somehow the reporter must have thought Eleanor was married to FDR! She probably didn't even know there were two Roosevelts.

I think you meant Teddy. Eleanor was married to Franklin.

78 posted on 03/31/2013 9:13:51 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: pepsionice
Journalism in college isn’t much to brag about.

Frankly, I am amazed that any of them passed English Composition, much less got a degree in journalism.

79 posted on 03/31/2013 9:18:45 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Ken H

‘APB: private citizen with a gun—shoot him!

Odd, we don’t feel compelled to shoot cops.


80 posted on 03/31/2013 9:25:07 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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