It Gets Worse!

30 July 09 Addendum to "Cookie-Bandit" story. It gets worse! Two officers were involved. The murdered deputy's partner left her service pistol in the beat-car and did not have it, nor any other gun, with her when the two arrived at the location where the suspect was confronted a short time later! The deputy who was ultimately murdered, surprised to learn of his partner's impotent status, quickly gave her his backup pistol (type unknown, may have been a 1911 with a manual safety), with which she was "unfamiliar." Right on cue, the suspect appeared and was immediately confronted and arrested. He allowed himself to be handcuffed behind his back, but then reached for a secreted revolver in his waistband and, still handcuffed, started firing at the two deputies. The first deputy was hit in the strong-side hand and, with the second shot, in the groin. The second shot was to prove fatal, as it severed his femoral artery. He died at the hospital several hours later. His partner was uninjured and attempted to fire at the suspect with her borrowed pistol, but was "unable to work the gun." She fired no shots. In a panic, she handed the gun to her now fatally-wounded partner, who grasped it in his support-side hand and immediately shot the suspect in the head, twice. Suspect was DRT! Comment: With "partners" like this, you don't need enemies! "Police" is not what we do. "Police" is what we are! Who are not serious about this profession, and their place in it, need to find other work, sometime before they get themselves, or their partners, killed. We call dangerous criminals VCAs for a reason. Give them an edge at your peril! /John