"You’re not taking that!" Family turmoil preceded fatal police shooting in Maryland’s only red flag death

Capital Gazette ^ | Oct 01, 2019 | Alex Mann

[fruser1]

Details from that fatal encounter at Willis' door, obtained by Capital Gazette through a request under Maryland’s Public Information Act, spell out how the shooting took place, the family turmoil that led up to it and the one-month investigation that followed.

https://www.capitalgazette.com/news/ac-cn-red-flag-20191001-zjzsbra735eatkkm2qmobz5z4a-story.html

[fruser1]

Old article that I somehow did not find when this first happened. Probably suppressed by google. I post link to it now as Virginia is on its way to having its own red flag law.

Commmies is as commies does.

[tbw2]

But Democrats won’t use red flag laws on known criminals.

Democrats frown on targeting gang databases with ‘red flag’ laws
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/democrats-frown-on-targeting-gang-databases-with-red-flag-laws

[tbw2]

The red flag laws are already being abused, too.

Sue your doctor? He uses the medical records to file a red flag report.

Gun control: NJ ‘red flag’ law put to test in case between Middletown man and his doctor
https://www.app.com/story/news/local/public-safety/2019/11/22/gun-control-nj-red-flag-law-tested-case-between-middletown-man-and-doctor/4253289002/

Politically motivated punishment of a police officer

What is Colorado’s ‘red flag’ law? Mom files case against police who killed her son

Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article239311158.html#storylink=cpy
https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article239311158.html

[Moonman62]

That morning, Willis and Hooper struggled for the gun. She would later tell investigators she had to push the muzzle away from her. One round fired from the revolver, exploding the pen she held. Forensic investigators later found only Willis’ DNA on the trigger.

After the gun went off, Zawodny shot Willis five times. The officer told investigators he didn’t know the revolver went off. As Willis collapsed, Hooper held onto the revolver.

Claude de Vastey Jones, then a deputy state’s attorney for the Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney’s Office, wrote in a Dec. 7 letter to the lead detective that she had reviewed all the evidence provided by police, forensic analysis, witness and officer statements.

She found the shooting was justified and recommended no criminal charges because Willis pointed the revolver at Hooper and did not obey the officers’ demands to put the gun down.

[Albion Wilde]

ping!