Sounds like the police really did act stupidly...

Wonderful. /s

They shot a dead man?

//I know I know

I clicked on this thread because I wanted to read how the shot a dead grandfather.

I guess we won’t be seeing any “Justice for Grandpa” rallies in 100 cities though, huh?

Police Shoot Dead Grandfather, 72, While Searching the Wrong Home for Burglar...

What I'd like to know is, if the Grandfather was dead, why did Police shoot him?

poor bastard might be alive if he only had a dog...

Sounds justified. He probably drew down on them. /s

Practice?

So they shot a dead guy? (what horrific writing)

Do they have an editor of any kind? Do they read their “work” before submitting it?

Did they get the dog too???

Stupid headline writers can at least be entertaining

But the officers got to go home at the end of their shift, that's the important thing. </sarc>

I thought it was just an example of some form of vicious homicidal necrophilia

What’s the news then, if the grandfather was already dead?

Oh, if only someone would invent a device which can provide a map for the police. Or maybe the cops could remember the even/odd pattern most cities follow for the sides of the streets.

Practice?

Obamacare.

Who shot Jason Howerton’s editor?

Is this the actual title? It says in the title that they shot a Dead Grandfather. While horrible to contemplate, it is not nearly as tragic as what they actually did in shooting an innocent man, a grandfather, dead because they went to the wrong house.

This type of thing happens far too often. Growing up in the late 50s through the 60s, you almost never heard of any such thing. Even the 70s and 80s it was rare. Now it seems to happen all the time.