Posted on 10/26/2015 12:48:25 PM PDT by Aliska
BETTENDORF, Iowa (KWQC) Police are responding to calls of a possible shooter in the 4500 block of Utica Ridge in Bettendorf. It appears to have started at the Marine recruiting office located at 710 E. Kimberly Rd. in Davenport around 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26, 2015.
A witness tells TV-6 that he heard shots fired at a law office next to the Marine recruiting center. He says he heard screaming and then heard the gunman try to reload his gun. A Marine recruiter told everyone to run. As the witness was running, he said he heard more gunfire. Kimberly Rd. was closed, but has since reopened to traffic.
A spokeswoman from Trinity Terrace Park did go on a brief lockdown, but it has been lifted.
Police were then called to the Miller Meier business in Bettendorf. We are still working to gather information, but we do have crews at both scenes.
Stay tuned to KWQC-TV6 and KWQC.com for further updates.
I work one mile up the road and have not heard anything.
This is a very safe area. The cops are rarely around because they are needed on the west side of Davenport where the gangsters live.
Sad situation all the way around and a lot of disruption. Thank you for the update.
Regarding the streaming video. It says listen live and I clicked a connect but didn't get anything, maybe got impatient. Not a very user friendly site.
I am listening to my radio in the other room while I'm surfing.
When the deputy was reported shot on the local news, I immediately called my daughter to see where she was. She cleans law offices in that area and also the neighboring town where the SOB holed up in a motel and killed himself when the cops cornered him........................
I didn't know they process serve in law offices. Maybe if they don't know where the person is but usually serve at home or maybe work.
It seems like maybe when those things are being served, some kind of protection by police would be in order but they can't do everything.
That shooter hit the sheriff's deputy so fast, he didn't have time to pull his gun, presume he was armed. Just took him by surprise and fled.
There is just too much of this sort of thing. Maybe I don't know what the past was really like, well, there were a whole lot fewer divorces and I never heard of a restraining order until was well into adulthood because hardly anyone would have felt the need to use them. They are ineffective anyway.
An armed Marine recruiter might have been able to stabilize the situation. But, nooooo! They're not allowed to be armed!
And G-d forbid any of those recruiters has a gun because if he or she shot the person they’d be court martialed.
SkyDancer, yes they would probably have been in big trouble even if they saved a lot of lives. When the story first broke, it sounded like the Marine office was the target, so naturally my mind raced to Chattanooga. Glad it wasn't that.
The article has been updated on the Quad City Times website, is under most read on the front page. It's very fortunate it wasn't worse than it was.
There may be a little more about it, but some of it we may never know. We have had a steep uptick in shots fired lately.
Thank you for finding that.
The deputy was shot in the back of the head. Never knew what hit him. He was a well known officer here and was very quiet and peaceful guy. He was retired, and was just working part time to make money to take his grandchild to Disney World..............
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