Fulton Co. Judge shot and killed in courthouse shooting (BREAKING Fri 9A)

WAGA-TV/WSB-TV Atlanta | 3.11.05

[mhking]

This is a breaking news situation.

A man entered a courtroom in the Fulton County Courthouse this morning and shot a Fulton County Sheriff's deputy, a clerk and a judge; there are reports from both WSB and WAGA, the judge is deceased.

The perp has carjacked multiple vehicles -- now on his third -- and is still at large.

I've just come from downtown Atlanta, and the city is a madhouse.

[cedarswingman]

I don't either. But words kill just as dead as bullets.

[meyer]

Clean it?? Now?? Surely you didn't put it away dirty ;-) .

No, I just like cleaning it. And racking the pump. Cha-Ching!

[Dead Corpse]

From what we have pieced together so far, yes.

[tatsmom]

That's what he needs to face anyway!

[thefactor]

i'll assume you left off your /sarcasm by accident.

[jer33 3]

Only Fulton County is out today. DeKalb and Gwinnett I believe are still in session.

[Rightly Biased]

"I stand by my statement that if the judge is a liberal leftist demoncRAT-prone activist judge that makes law instead of interpreting, then good riddance. If not my sympathies to the family." lilylangtree

I believe if you can't say something good about somebody you are porbably taling about Hillary Clinton." Rightly Biased

I sure don't see the comparison.

[Not A Snowbird]

I don't think he'll live that long. If he is cornered, and the deputies don't put him out of his misery, he'll probably take the cowardly route and off himself.

[henkster]

The key is to catch him today, sometime this p.m., right after the adrenaline buzz wears off. The POS guard will be down; he'll be drained and exhausted. It could make the difference in whether we have another victim of this animal.

[Howlin]

you are making us all look like drooling knuckledraggers the left thinks we are.

Sometimes I can't decide whether that's what those posters want to accomplish

OR

if FR is hotwired into a psycho ward.

[over3Owithabrain]

Us cubies need updates!

[Dead Corpse]

Gal who lost her weapon to the perp is out of surgery and alive. She was shot through the mouth.

[Interesting Times]

I don't either. But words kill just as dead as bullets.

Bang.

Still breathing? Then you're mistaken.

[retrokitten]

LOL! Probably a little from column A and a little from column B. ;-)

[El Gato]

How on earth can one carry a gun into a courthouse???

If one is a deputy or other LEO. In some jurisdictions, the lawyers and judges are also allowed (Who's going to tell the judge he can't?).

Yet another example of the fallacy of "only the police and military should have guns". If the members of the jury, or jury pool, or the folks in the gallery, had been armed, we might still have a dead judge, but we'd also probably have a dead or down perp, rather than one who manged to kill two others and wound at least one more and who is still running around loose.

[Howlin]

Speak for yourself.

[Gumption]

I believe Jonathan Serrie (sp?) the Fox reporter said the DEPUTIES held them, with guns drawn, for two hours in the courtroom the REPORTERS were in (covering a murder trial in another courtroom) while the DEPUTIES did a room-by-room sweep of the building. The reporters weren't being held hostage by the perp, but held to remain out of the way while the authorities looked for the perp.

Ohhhh. I'm so sorry. I should pay better attention.

[lilylangtree]

See 1198.

[seacapn]

What kind of police operation is underway in Georgia right now to find the guy? It's kind of surprising he's been at large for this long.

[Rutles4Ever]

Don't tattle on the inbreds.