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A 21-year-old Hofstra University student who was killed in a home invasion on Friday was mistakenly shot in the head by an officer who fired eight times at a man who was holding a gun to the students head and then pointed it at him, the police said on Saturday. Seven of the bullets hit the man, who was also killed.
The student, Andrea Rebello, and her twin sister, Jessica, who also lived at the home, just blocks from the university, were among several people taken hostage on Friday morning in an apparent robbery attempt.
The Nassau County police identified the gunman as Dalton Smith, 30, a Hempstead, N.Y., resident with an extensive criminal record who was wanted for violating parole on a robbery conviction.
About 15 or 20 minutes elapsed from the time Mr. Smith burst into the home about 2:20 a.m. Friday until the last shot was fired, the police said.
Several hostages had already escaped when police officers arrived and surrounded the house at about 2:30 a.m., Detective Lt. John Azzata said at a news conference on Saturday. The police, who had been alerted to the invasion by one of the people who had escaped, initially thought that only Mr. Smith remained in the house, he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/nyregion/suspect-in-hofstra-home-invasion-had-extensive-criminal-record.html?hp&_r=0
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)the perp aimed and was about to fire on the policemen
had the perp not had a gun after a reinterpretation of the 2nd, then it wouldn't have happened.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)The "perps" are the people whose guns will never be effectively banned no matter how many laws are written, or how many times the Second Amendment is reinterpreted or even repealed. You will never get their guns, even with a door-to-door search.
So an on-duty police officer shoots someone accidentally and here you are with "need to be banned from individuals except for on-duty police". If the whole thing weren't so tragic, it would be insanely funny to read.
"had the perp not had a gun..." why is it you don't understand that no matter what is done, short of a door-to-door simultaneous search of every building in the country, criminals will ALWAYS have guns? I swear, and I've said this before; I do not believe we speak and understand the same language.
I would also ask when you evolved from "banning guns and bullets from the streets" to banning them from all individuals who aren't "on-duty" police?
If you want guns and bullets removed from all individuals, you'd better be ready to build a complete wall on the southern border, and probably the northern border as well. Hey, the unintended consequence of that would be a complete end to unlawful immigration. Do you support that? I'd be willing to bet money you don't.
Oh, and your detector and sensor BS? Should something like that ever be implemented, I and millions of other people will take to carrying a piece of metal on our person wherever we go. It will be our form of protest, and it will be perfectly legal. Let every single law enforcement officer I pass be obligated to stop and search me. I'm more than fine with that. I live in a community of 16,000 on top of a mountain, my commute to work is less than 5 miles, and if I see three cars on the WAY to work, I consider it a traffic jam. The local law enforcement officers can stop me every single day either on my way to work or on my way home, and I'll be smiling when I stop, and smiling when I drive away.
Have you ever considered taking your act on the road? I'm sure you'd be a big hit in the Hamptons!
zerosumgame0005
(207 posts)shooting the perp was the important thing! So what if the pig had to shoot through the hostage!!!!!!!!
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)You were just too eager for an opportunity to call the police "pigs".
Go back and read the very first sentence. That might give you some clues as to why the officer fired...
zerosumgame0005
(207 posts)but hey, you have an agenda and nothing will stop you from regurgitating it all over everyone around you.
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)zerosumgame0005
(207 posts)or include any actual rational discussion? Or do you just snipe and act superior as if you have some secret knowledge or control?