Posted on 06/15/2008 4:48:09 PM PDT by 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."
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Or, if none was available, a car jack or tire iron would do just fine as well.
This was reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, but this outrage didn’t happen there.
Turlock is an agricultural community in the “Central Valley,” generally a more conservative area of California.
I believe the “Central Valley” is the San Joaquin Valley and the Sacramento Valley combined.
Still, the over-reaching gun laws passed in California’s capital, Sacramento, affect the entire state in a negative way.
It's a shame he wasn't gut shot serious enough to bleed out before medical help could come. And in a whole bunch of pain. May there be a special place in Hell for that mutt.
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DU`ers are condemning the police officer and are suggesting the guy who killed the baby is an Iraq veteran.
The suspect had tunnel vision?
I’d say he had pure evil vision.
May God rest the bambinos soul.
Can someone explain to their best knowledge the biblical meaning of God is going to lift the Holy Spirit from this world?
My question is: Will the Holy Spirit leave over time or all at once?
This man who felt so much hate to kill a child will have some splainin’ to do when shown the door to eternal hell he better hope Gods forgiving love is on his side now.
Not a happy ending at all. Small comfort.
Well that is a very predictable response.
If true, sounds like he may have been on the wrong side.
Looking at the timeline it probably went pretty fast. I commend the folks for trying to stop him.
Evil like this is out there and the police can’t protect us. Guns should not be illegal in CA.
You obviously don't know where Turlock is. It's in the San Joaquin Valley, south of Modesto.
May God have the child close to His bosom.
The FR cop-haters don't seem to have found this thread yet. Perhaps they are all over at DU at the moment.
I'll be thinking about this poor baby and wondering who he belonged to for a long time. God rest his little soul.
No, probably the baby was crying and disturbing his macho almighty peace and he was having to babysit while the baby mama worked. and he couldn’t go out drinking and drugging with his boys and so he just lost his cool.
13 months ago, he wasn’t a baby and It wouldn’t have been a crime.
There isn’t any place I know of in scripture that says specifically that the Holy Spirit will be lifted out of this world. There is scripture to the effect that he who now lets will let until he is taken out of the way. A lot of people think the “he” that is mentioned in this scripture is the Holy Spirit and that the rapture (also not specifically named in scripture) will be the result of believers in Christ being removed from the world at some future date and, thus, the Holy Spirit in those believers will go with them. (I’m not saying that’s right, just that it is the belief of some.)
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