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UPDATED: ALEA investigating fatal officer-involved shooting near Gadsden elementary school
WAAY 31 (Huntsville, Alabama ABC) ^ | 06/09/2022 | Jessica Barnett

Posted on 06/09/2022 3:43:10 PM PDT by DFG

UPDATE: The man killed Thursday morning has been identified as 32-year-old Robert Tyler White of Bunnlevel, North Carolina. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said a school resource officer tried to stop White as White attempted to break into a police vehicle.

White resisted and tried to take the officer's firearm, ALEA said. He was then injured by gunfire and pronounced deceased, according to ALEA, who is investigating the incident. The agency's findings will be turned over to the Etowah County District Attorney's Office once the investigation is complete.

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From earlier:

A shooting near a Gadsden elementary school Thursday morning has left one person dead, but authorities stress all children who were at the school safe.

Gadsden City Schools Superintendent Tony Reddick said a man appeared at Walnut Park Elementary School and tried to enter the building through several doors. After officials noticed him on campus, they put the school on lockdown and called for police.

(Excerpt) Read more at waaytv.com ...


TOPICS: US: Alabama; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: alabama; banglist; bunnlevel; crime; gadsden; police; schoolshooting

1 posted on 06/09/2022 3:43:10 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Next up. Trying to tie totally unrelated police activity into school violence.


2 posted on 06/09/2022 3:45:43 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: DFG

The doors were all locked. Unlike Uvalde where the very first door the shooter went to was unlocked.


3 posted on 06/09/2022 3:46:20 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: DFG

Spent a lot of summers with grandparents right outside of Gadsden. Roll Tide.


4 posted on 06/09/2022 3:46:26 PM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: DFG
He was then injured by gunfire and pronounced deceased,

DRT in police lingo (Dead Right There).

5 posted on 06/09/2022 3:47:47 PM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: DFG

Bunnlevel

Not to be confused with eye level.


6 posted on 06/09/2022 3:55:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: DFG

If White on White is white on white, justified. If White on White is White on Black, George Kirby all over again.


7 posted on 06/09/2022 4:00:53 PM PDT by GOP Congress
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To: DFG

Don’t tread on Gadsden...


8 posted on 06/09/2022 4:04:06 PM PDT by null and void (We're trapped between too many questions unanaswered, and too many answers unquestioned...)
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To: DFG

That’s what should happen.


9 posted on 06/09/2022 4:05:42 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: GOP Congress

Initial Google search indicates he was a “gentle giant”.

No pics of the LEO.


10 posted on 06/09/2022 4:20:10 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: DFG

This is a very undeveloped story. A lot more to come? Or it will disappear tomorrow?


11 posted on 06/09/2022 4:35:01 PM PDT by JoJo354 (Freedom first.)
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To: BenLurkin

THere is a Bunlevel in North Carolina. A woman once said she was from Bunlevel. I said “Well, we are all from Bunlevel at some point....”


12 posted on 06/09/2022 4:41:22 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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To: DFG

I’m curious, what were children doing at school? Summer vacation started around three weeks ago. Unless the school was conducting a summer program.


13 posted on 06/09/2022 5:07:39 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (The fate of all mankind, I see, is in the hands of fools.- King Crimson)
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To: CrimsonTidegirl

They were doing a summer literacy camp at the school.


14 posted on 06/09/2022 5:10:46 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: CrimsonTidegirl

“A summer literacy program was reportedly going on inside and it was believed there was around 35 children attending. Roughly 20 other students that were participating in the Parks and Recreation summer camp was also on campus, according Gadsden Times.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10901735/School-resource-officer-shoots-suspicious-man-dead-tried-enter-locked-school-AL.html


15 posted on 06/09/2022 5:13:59 PM PDT by DFG
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White resisted and tried to take the officer's firearm,

If a suspect gets in a scuffle with a cop and attempts to take his firearm, then the suspect has given the cop just cause to shoot him. The gentle giant in Missouri tried to take the cops gun, then kept charging back at him.

16 posted on 06/09/2022 5:33:41 PM PDT by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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To: DFG

Thank you for the info.


17 posted on 06/10/2022 11:56:52 AM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (The fate of all mankind, I see, is in the hands of fools.- King Crimson)
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To: Tell It Right

Thank you.


18 posted on 06/10/2022 11:57:36 AM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (The fate of all mankind, I see, is in the hands of fools.- King Crimson)
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