Man kills baby and is shot to death by police

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | june 15, 2008 | Demian Bulwa

[driftdiver]

A young Turlock man parked a pickup truck on a dark country road outside his Central Valley city Saturday night, removed a baby boy from a car seat and then viciously beat the child in the street, fighting off passersby who tried to stop him until he was fatally shot by a police officer whose helicopter landed in a nearby pasture, police said today.

The 27-year-old suspect died immediately where he fell. The child, who according to police appeared to be 12 to 24 months old, was rushed to a hospital but was soon pronounced dead as well.

Police officials declined to identify the man this morning and said they did not yet know who the child was - or what his relationship was to his attacker. No information was immediately available about the baby's mother.

The suspect "had tunnel vision," said Stanislaus County sheriff's deputy Royjindar Singh, a department spokesman. "As people tried to intervene, to tackle him, he just went back to what he was doing. Anything and everything he could do to the baby, that's what he was doing."

[driftdiver]

too bad none of the witnesses had a firearm. although shooting was too good for this puke.

[OpusatFR]

The world has gone insane.

[goldstategop]

The police didn't have a choice. I feel sad for the little boy's death. No adult should ever lay his hands like that on a child.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Libertarianize the GOP]

A baseball bat to the head would have stopped him.

[B-Chan]

[Kitty Mittens]

Horrible...Thank God the child went right to the Arms of the Lord.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Saving the taxpayers a lot of $$.

[basil]

Being the San Francisco area, not many there are allowed to be armed. Isn't it awful that it nearly always takes a gun to stop criminals like this guy--and how law-abiding people (usually the first line of defense) aren't allowed to be armed.

Had a armed citizen been on the scene, chances are good that the poor child would be alive right now.

[mkjessup]

The world has gone insane.

The evil that has always roamed this planet, looking for whoever it might devour, has been ramping up exponentially.

God have mercy upon us.

[LibWhacker]

And the scumbag right into the claws of the devil (i hope).

[Polynikes]

“A baseball bat to the head would have stopped him.”

or a .45acp legally carried or not. In situations like this the law be damned

[the invisib1e hand]

The evil that has always roamed this planet, looking for whoever it might devour, has been ramping up exponentially.

unquestionably.

That reminds me. Time to say a Rosary.

[antiRepublicrat]

"He refuses to comply with the orders and the officer fires," Singh said, "resulting in the death of the suspect."

*sniff* I love happy endings.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

A good shoe strike to the temple probably would have sufficed. But it’s Kalifornia! Nobody wanted to hurt him! Me? I woulda kicked him in the throat!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Evil. May the baby rest in peace.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

You would think some motorist had a tire iron at least, a couple of big dents in the perp's head should stop most anyone who isn't high on PCP or something.

[fieldmarshaldj]

No happy ending for the baby.

[B-Chan]

He was “on” evil.

God help us.