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'They shot the wrong guy' says ex-wife of homeowner police shot dead during reported robbery
Trib Live ^ | Jan. 22, 2017 | WES VENTEICHER

Posted on 01/23/2017 4:18:04 PM PST by Leaning Right

Brenda Thompkins awoke early Sunday morning to find a stranger standing near the bed in which she and her ex-husband, Christopher Thompkins, were sleeping on the second floor of his Larimer home. *snip*

When officers tried to enter the house from the front porch, someone inside began shooting in their direction, Toler said. Officers returned fire, killing the 57-year-old homeowner later identified by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office as Christopher Thompkins.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: pittsburgh; police; shooting
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To: RS_Rider

Lots of good learnings here. If your spouse calls the cops while you go investigate ,very important that spouse describes you and tells 911 that you are the homeowner and you are armed. Also, the fact that the screen door had holes in it but the front door didn’t might mean the intruder was on the way out the door when the homeowner opened fire , with the cops coming up the front steps at the same time. I’ll definitely adopt a wait and see on this one as it sounds like a chaotic scene. If you want to see true cop incompetence, google for the guy in Georgia who was shot in his own house though he was unarmed. Thankfully he survived. Cops went to wrong house while responding to a call. Killed his dog to boot.


21 posted on 01/23/2017 4:57:11 PM PST by Panzerfaust
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To: Leaning Right

One place I’ll never be caught dead - is in bed with either of my ex-wives. That’s a bad call right there!


22 posted on 01/23/2017 4:57:47 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Panzerfaust
Lots of good learnings here. If your spouse calls the cops while you go investigate ,very important that spouse describes you and tells 911 that you are the homeowner and you are armed.

Excellent point.

23 posted on 01/23/2017 4:59:27 PM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Ex-wife of homeowner in bed with ex-husband. What a tangle web is weaved or is it a federal benefit rip-off?


24 posted on 01/23/2017 5:00:55 PM PST by depressed in 06 (60 in '18.)
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To: depressed in 06

Ouch!


25 posted on 01/23/2017 5:11:56 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Obama, Clinton, McStain, and Graham, with people like this, who needs enemies?)
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To: dp0622

Yep. “felony murder rule”.

CC


26 posted on 01/23/2017 5:24:46 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: RS_Rider

Yeah, I wasn’t saying either police or homeowner did anything wrong, but seems like there are some missing details here. If someone woke me up in bed, it would be much less time than police could respond before I could find a gun, even if it was down stairs with someone else. So seems like the reaction time of the homeowner and the response time of the police are out of synch. Would the police roll up silent or with lights and siren? Seems like the owner was not all there and some stupidity/drugs/mental condition/association with the intruder may have been involved.


27 posted on 01/23/2017 5:33:24 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Magnum44

I think you misread, he retrieved the gun from his ex-wife’s purse, who he was sleeping with, then went downstairs to check on his mother.

I agree, way too many people who are willing to jump to conclusions and blame the cops.


28 posted on 01/23/2017 5:45:53 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: depressed in 06

Could be they got divorced, then reconciled but didn’t bother to get married again. It happens.


29 posted on 01/23/2017 5:49:36 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Leaning Right

Interesting that the deceased worked miscellaneous jobs and had a cleaning business but was home quite often according to the neighborhood acquaintance? Also that he was always very well dressed and had some high cost sports cars? Hmmmm?


30 posted on 01/23/2017 6:31:12 PM PST by eeriegeno (<p>)
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To: FreedomStar3028
"Cops probably won't even be put on paid leave..."

Of course they will, the traditional paid vacation for a job well done.

31 posted on 01/23/2017 6:51:29 PM PST by diogenes ghost
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To: diogenes ghost

A job well done?

Killing the home owner, instead of the intruder?

They’ll likely get to keep running their patrols, endangering the lives of other victims. Not even put on paid leave.


32 posted on 01/23/2017 6:56:02 PM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

Yep. Justice has become a business in America. To the detriment of thousands of families and innocent lives ruined. At the root of it all is money. It all comes back to money.

I wouldn’t mind a full justice system reform.


33 posted on 01/23/2017 7:01:13 PM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: FreedomStar3028

“To the detriment of thousands of families and innocent lives ruined. “


Thousands ???

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34 posted on 01/23/2017 7:04:13 PM PST by Mears
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To: Leaning Right

It’s because they are the cops, they can do no wrong, and they are the cops so they must be right all the time. NO MATTER WHAT. That’s why.

It’s why the ATF exists, its why SWAT throws flashbangs in baby cribs, its why they issue no-knock warrants. They can do whatever they want. Lots of people don’t understand that. Hopefully they never will.


35 posted on 01/23/2017 7:04:46 PM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Mears

Tens of thousands?

Hundreds of thousands?

....Millions?


36 posted on 01/23/2017 7:06:33 PM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Leaning Right

The lesson is.

Never sleep with your ex-wife.


37 posted on 01/23/2017 7:55:46 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: FreedomStar3028
At the root of it all is money. It all comes back to money.

The poison is that prosecutors have UNLIMITED $$$. When an OJ or Woody Allen has the ability to match them, everyone gets upset. But when the government has a bad case, but charges a poor guy with crimes that will add up to life, they settle for lesser charges even if they're innocent.

Woody Allen is a jerk & sexually weird. But the case against him was bogus. The fact that he fought back pretty much ended the child abuse witch hunts. If he was poor, he'd have been railroaded.

38 posted on 01/23/2017 8:13:19 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments (Nessie ... Sasquatch ... The Free Syrian Army ...)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

Yep. It’s a completely one-sided system that favors the criminal justice system when one of the values of the criminal justice system is that justice is supposedly blind. But if you lose cases or don’t get plea downs as prosecutors you won’t have a career.

It’s totally bullshit.


39 posted on 01/23/2017 8:16:46 PM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Leaning Right
"Officers in police-involved shootings are not interviewed until 48 hours after the incident, Toler said."

I am as pro law enforcement as anyone, but does this statement in the article strike anyone else as odd? Why do cops get to be interviewed 48 hours after the incident and not right away? Seems to me that gives them a lot of time to "get their story straight". Isn't that why they try to interview people right away? So they get the real scoop and not give someone a chance to concoct a story?
40 posted on 01/23/2017 8:23:58 PM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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