Posted on 11/17/2014 3:13:27 PM PST by Impala64ssa
A Citrus County deputy is on administrative leave after officials say he fatally shot a woman who pointed a taser at him during a disturbance call in Inverness late Sunday night.
According to the Citrus County Sheriffs Office, the deputy — identified as Jacob Chenoweth — shot 46-year-old Dawn Renee Cameron following a struggle after receiving the call at 550 W. Independence Hwy., Lot 60, in Inverness.
A witness told deputies she attempted to light a truck on fire then left the scene.
Once the deputy encountered Cameron at the entrance to the park, the Citrus County Sheriffs Office said Cameron attacked him, removing the deputy’s taser and pointing it at him.
The deputy then shot Cameron, the sheriff’s office said.
Cameron was pronounced dead at a local hospital shortly after midnight, the sheriff’s office said.
An investigation is under way, the sheriff’s office said.
Chenoweth has been with the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office since March 8, 2010, records show, and he has no previous incidents or disciplines on file.
Sounds justifiable to me.
Yep. If he didn’t shoot her, crazy lady tases police officer, now crazy lady has a gun and a cop car. Crazy ladies don’t do well with firearms.
CC
She’s a Tweeker.
Sounds like this woman did more than start and is become a candidate for the Darwin Awards; eliminating herself from the gene pool.
Don’t take a taser to a ...
If she’d dead now, how did they get this mug shot ??
Must have been arrested before.
I highly suspect this ain’t her first rodeo...
..but it was her last!
The precedent is established ... if you point anything at me, I will shoot to kill you.
That’s a rough 46!
The face of meth. She looks like she’s 60.
“When you start pointing a weapon on law enforcement your life is on very thin breaking ice.”
It’s not a weapon when a cop tazers a 12 year old school girl, now it is? Seems to me the cop had no reason to fear for his life. Not a good shoot based on that.
And with her looks and her age, she wasn’t in the gene pool...
‘zactly.
CC
“That’s a rough 46!”
Ridden hard and put away wet?
I won’t shoot to kill, I’ll shoot to stop.
That is, I’ll shoot so that the perp will stop and fall down, as quickly as possible.
Once he falls down, I’d just as soon he live. Provided that he stops.
Of course, the fastest way to stop someone is to put multiple rounds through center mass - tearing out the major arteries running along the spine. Cut them, and he’ll will bleed out in seconds.
So if I hit my target he’s not likely to live. But my intent, in aiming where I aim, isn’t to kill, it’s to stop.
And if it turns out that I’m not that great a shot, under stress (which isn’t unlikely), I’ll keep shooting until he’s stopped being a threat, and if he’s still alive when I determine that he’s not a threat, I’m fine with that.
Remember, the only correct answer, when the prosecutor asks “why did you shoot him X times?” is “because after I’d shot him X-1 times, he was still a threat.”
Consider, for example, someone twenty feet away, coming at you with a machete. You attempt a double-tap to center mass, and put one round through his kneecap and the other into a maple tree. He’s no longer a threat, and your right to use deadly force to stop him has just ended. (That doesn’t mean aim for his kneecap - aim for center mass. Hitting large, stationary targets with a pistol under stress is hard enough.)
“Citrus police? You expect me to believe that?”
Not a weapon? One of the things i learned in academy is if you’re a cop responding to a call, 100% of the time a gun will be involved. Why? Because YOU are ARMED. If she had tased the officer, then she has access to his sidearm, gas, any backup weapons and a cop car. 100% clean shoot. Use of force review should clear him. He might get in some kind of administrative trouble for losing his taser. And he might be sent to weapons retention training to freshen up his skills. But I very much doubt he will be in serous trouble.
CC
Not anymore she ain’t.
CC
What you said CC...
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