PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - Officials say a Panama City police officer has shot and killed a machete wielding man.
The Panama City News Herald (http://bit.ly/HYFZyc ) reports a
40-year-old man stood in a street with the machete screaming on Sunday
morning.
When officers arrived at the scene, they asked him
to put down his machete but say he refused. After unsuccessful attempts
to subdue him, the man reportedly charged at the officers and began
swinging his machete.
One of the officers then shot him.
They performed CPR and rushed the man to a local hospital where he died.
The man's name has not been released.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement will investigate the shooting.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Meriden police kill man armed with scissors
MERIDEN, Conn. (AP) — State police detectives are investigating after a Meriden
police officer shot and killed a man who allegedly charged at him with a
pair of scissors.
The incident occurred after Meriden police responded to a call reporting a disturbance at a Maple Branch home early Saturday. Officers found the man creating a violent disturbance on the second floor of the house before moving to the third floor.
Police claim that the suspect was verbally threatening and suddenly charged at officers armed with the scissors. Police attempted to retreat and one officer tried to use a stun gun that allegedly was ineffective. An officer then fired his firearm, hitting the unnamed suspect. He was pronounced dead at MidState Medical Center.
State police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance says the agency will investigate the shooting.
The incident occurred after Meriden police responded to a call reporting a disturbance at a Maple Branch home early Saturday. Officers found the man creating a violent disturbance on the second floor of the house before moving to the third floor.
Police claim that the suspect was verbally threatening and suddenly charged at officers armed with the scissors. Police attempted to retreat and one officer tried to use a stun gun that allegedly was ineffective. An officer then fired his firearm, hitting the unnamed suspect. He was pronounced dead at MidState Medical Center.
State police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance says the agency will investigate the shooting.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Tucson police shoot and kill suspect who ran from bail bondmen, hid in Walmart store
TUCSON, Ariz. — A Tucson police officer has shot and killed a suspect
who ran from bail bondsmen and tried to hide in a nearby Walmart store.
Two men and woman were detained. Store security officers told police a man matching the description of the man who ran away was in the store but heading out the back exit.
Officers were searching the parking lot when they spotted the man, who had a handgun. Hawke says he refused to drop the gun and an officer shot him. The 26-year-old died at a hospital.
Sgt. Maria Hawke says the bail agents called police to ask for help apprehending a group of fugitives they had been following on Tuesday evening.Sgt. Maria Hawke says the bail agents called police to ask for help apprehending a group of fugitives they had been following on Tuesday evening. Before police arrived they pulled into a Walmart parking lot and a man ran away.
Two men and woman were detained. Store security officers told police a man matching the description of the man who ran away was in the store but heading out the back exit.
Officers were searching the parking lot when they spotted the man, who had a handgun. Hawke says he refused to drop the gun and an officer shot him. The 26-year-old died at a hospital.
Keene police kill man fleeing from attempted burglary
KEENE (AP) — The New Hampshire Attorney
General’s office says one man has been fatally shot by police in Keene
while fleeing from an attempted burglary.
Attorney General Michael Delaney said
Keene police responded to a burglary complaint on Tuesday night. They
saw at least one person on the roof of the Diversified Computers
business. They arrested two people fleeing the scene.
Delaney said another man attempted to
drive away. Officers pursued him to Marlboro Street, where he parked,
fled, then returned to the vehicle in an attempt to escape. Delaney said
two officers fired at the vehicle, killing the man. He has not been
identified and an autopsy is scheduled Thursday.
The two men arrested, William Rodriguez and Jonathan Figueroa, were scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Gunmen kill two illegal immigrants in Arizona
They open fire on a truckload of people in an area known for immigrant-smuggling.
One of the victims was identified as Gerardo Perez-Ruiz, 39, of Toluca, Mexico. The second man remained unidentified but was thought to be from Guatemala.
They were among a group of 20 to 30 people riding in the bed of a Chevy truck on Sunday when men with rifles ambushed them, Pima County Sheriff's Deputy Dawn Barkman said in an interview. The area, near the town of Eloy, is known for immigrant-smuggling, she said.
Family members dragged Perez-Ruiz from the truck bed and tried to revive him, she said. The other man was dead in the truck.
Authorities are working with the Guatemalan Consulate to confirm his identity and contact his next of kin, Barkman said.
Most of the illegal immigrants fled, she said, but five were found hiding in the desert near the truck. They described the attackers to the Pima County Sheriff's Border Crimes Unit.
"We're looking at the motives and who the suspects could have been," Barkman said. "We're not going to speculate on any reasons for this crime at this time."
But she said the incident was similar to two attacks in 2007 that prompted the formation of the Border Crimes Unit.
On Feb. 8, 2007, three illegal immigrants were shot to death in the desert outside Tucson. No arrests have been made and the motive remains a mystery.
Nearly two months later, on March 30, 2007, two more illegal immigrants were ambushed and shot to death by men dressed in black. Those killings were the result of a foiled "drug rip," Barkman said, explaining that the attackers were looking for drugs but the vehicle was instead filled with smuggled immigrants.
Two Mexican men were arrested in that case, she said, and the third remains at large. They pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and were sentenced to 23 years in prison.
"They were looking out for people crossing with drugs, which is a common thing," she said. "It's one of the reasons why the [Border Crimes Unit] was formed, and they have been successful in reducing this type of activity."
Police Kill Chase Suspect
WOODLAND HILLS - The southbound lanes of the Ventura (101)
Freeway -- one of the region's major arteries -- were reopened today after a nightlong closure prompted by an investigation into the fatal shooting of a 19- year-old Winnetka man by Los Angeles police officers at the end of a car chase.
The shooting occurred on the freeway in Woodland Hills shortly before 10 p.m. Wednesday, triggering a probe by investigators from the Los Angeles Police Department's Force Investigation Division and the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
Until the southbound lanes were re-opened at 8 a.m., motorists were diverted at Topanga Canyon Boulevard and allowed to re-enter the southbound lanes at Winnetka Avenue, the California Highway Patrol reported.
Los Angeles police have not said whether the man who was shot and killed by officers was armed. The man's family identified him as Abdul Arian and said he was unarmed. An uncle said the young man both wanted to be a police officer and feared police, and he wondered aloud if officers could have used non-lethal force.
The man, who was suspected of reckless driving, was shot after exiting his car on the southbound 101 Freeway at the end of a chase, said Officer Gregory Baek of the LAPD's Media Relations office.
Officers from the LAPD's Devonshire Station first stopped the suspect's car around 9:50 p.m. Wednesday in the area of Plummer Street and Shirley Avenue in Northridge, said Officer Karen Rayner of LAPD Media Relations. The man sped away from the stop and drove recklessly, running red lights, before getting onto the freeway, she said.
He exited the freeway at Topanga Canyon Boulevard and re-entered on the southbound side, LAPD Lt. Andy Neiman said.
The chase ended on the freeway at Canoga Avenue with the suspect fleeing through the passenger side door of his car, which was turned sideways in the middle of lanes. A squad car was driven into the driver's side door.
The suspect could be seen in television footage pointing at officers as he ran, but it was unclear if he had anything in his hand. Either way, the gesture was followed by police fire, and the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
The shooting occurred on the freeway in Woodland Hills shortly before 10 p.m. Wednesday, triggering a probe by investigators from the Los Angeles Police Department's Force Investigation Division and the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
Until the southbound lanes were re-opened at 8 a.m., motorists were diverted at Topanga Canyon Boulevard and allowed to re-enter the southbound lanes at Winnetka Avenue, the California Highway Patrol reported.
Los Angeles police have not said whether the man who was shot and killed by officers was armed. The man's family identified him as Abdul Arian and said he was unarmed. An uncle said the young man both wanted to be a police officer and feared police, and he wondered aloud if officers could have used non-lethal force.
The man, who was suspected of reckless driving, was shot after exiting his car on the southbound 101 Freeway at the end of a chase, said Officer Gregory Baek of the LAPD's Media Relations office.
Officers from the LAPD's Devonshire Station first stopped the suspect's car around 9:50 p.m. Wednesday in the area of Plummer Street and Shirley Avenue in Northridge, said Officer Karen Rayner of LAPD Media Relations. The man sped away from the stop and drove recklessly, running red lights, before getting onto the freeway, she said.
He exited the freeway at Topanga Canyon Boulevard and re-entered on the southbound side, LAPD Lt. Andy Neiman said.
The chase ended on the freeway at Canoga Avenue with the suspect fleeing through the passenger side door of his car, which was turned sideways in the middle of lanes. A squad car was driven into the driver's side door.
The suspect could be seen in television footage pointing at officers as he ran, but it was unclear if he had anything in his hand. Either way, the gesture was followed by police fire, and the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Mass Arrests After Bottles Hurled at Cops From Bronx Building
CONCOURSE VILLAGE — A wild melee broke out in the Bronx Saturday after scores of police officers stormed a six-story building where glass bottles had been hurled from a roof at cops below.
As police surrounded the building at 355 E. 163rd St., some 50 people gathered outside, sparking fights with officers that left one cop with an injured hand and at least 10 people — including four who are younger than 16 — under arrest on charges ranging from rioting and disorderly conduct to assault, according to police.
Criminal complaints charge that those arrested were "pushing, grabbing, and kicking" officers as they tried to find and capture the people who had thrown the bottles, and that members of the crowd refused to disperse.
But witnesses and people named in the complaints say they were merely bystanders who police indiscriminately arrested, including an eighth-grade boy who said he was pepper-sprayed and punched soon after returning from Saturday school and a mother who said she was pepper-sprayed and arrested while trying to stop her sons from joining the fray.
"We don’t assume all cops are bad, so how can they assume all of us are bad?" asked the mother, Trina Stephenson, whose charges include disorderly conduct, rioting and resisting arrest.
The police department’s press office did not respond to questions about the incident or allegations by people involved. The Bronx District Attorney's office provided criminal complaints for the six adults arrested, but not the juveniles.
According to witnesses as well as people who were arrested, on Saturday evening some building residents and a few police patrol officers were standing near the corner of 163rd Street and Teller Avenue, where a mobile police surveillance tower was installed about two weeks earlier due to gang activity in the area.
Sometime before 6 p.m., the first bottles began to fall and shatter on the pavement, sending residents scurrying and officers calling for backup. One officer from the 44th precinct who asked not to be named said objects had been thrown at cops from rooftops in that area before.
As officers arrived, they began to round up young people who were standing around the intersection or in the courtyard of the complex that includes the building from where the bottles were tossed, according to witnesses.
A police van soon carted away several suspects, most of them young people, witnesses said. But more bottles continued to fall, prompting more officers to arrive.
A YouTube video containing explicit language taken from one of the buildings in the complex shows dozens of marked and unmarked police cars filling multiple blocks around the intersection.
While officers flooded the building and courtyard, residents of the complex began to gather outside to see what was happening and to check if anyone they knew had been arrested.
Stephenson, 33, who was outside when the bottles landed, said that when she saw the first wave of officers arrive, she rushed to grab her two teenage sons. She was shielding one son and clutching the other when cops began to pull the three apart, then pepper spray and handcuff her, she said.
Stephenson, who lives in Middletown, N.Y., but was visiting relatives in the neighborhood where she grew up, said she and others were careful not to fight officers during the incident.
"We’re not stupid," she said. "We know what’s going to happen if we hit them back."
Alshante Baker, 14, an eighth grader at nearby Bronx Early College Academy, had just returned from classes he takes at the school on Saturdays to prepare for the high school entrance exams.
After he dropped his backpack in his aunt’s apartment inside the complex, he went back to the courtyard to find out what was happening.
As soon as he stepped outside, police officers yelled at, shoved and handcuffed him, and he was hit with pepper spray in his left eye, he said. He was then arrested.
Baker’s father, Jermaine Brown, 40, said his son is a straight-A student who spends most afternoons inside to avoid trouble.
"They arrested a model kid for no reason," Brown said Monday afternoon, before taking his son to the hospital to have his eye examined.
"I’ve lived in this area for 25 years and I’ve never seen anything like this," Brown added.
Other witnesses said they saw other young people punched and pepper sprayed, including a girl with asthma, Shanic Williams, 14, who said she had trouble breathing after being sprayed.
Officer Julian Martinez "suffered substantial pain and a sprained hand" when a 19-year-old man kicked Martinez while he was trying to make an arrest, according to the complaint.
Maria Lazo, the superintendent of a building that faces the one where the incident occurred, witnessed part of the skirmish. She said cops in the area are sometimes too aggressive, but mainly, "They’re here trying to protect the rest of us."
Most of the blame for Saturday’s uproar, she said, belonged to whoever threw the bottles. "It bothers me when people do stuff like that," said Lazo, "because the whole community gets messed up."
As police surrounded the building at 355 E. 163rd St., some 50 people gathered outside, sparking fights with officers that left one cop with an injured hand and at least 10 people — including four who are younger than 16 — under arrest on charges ranging from rioting and disorderly conduct to assault, according to police.
Criminal complaints charge that those arrested were "pushing, grabbing, and kicking" officers as they tried to find and capture the people who had thrown the bottles, and that members of the crowd refused to disperse.
But witnesses and people named in the complaints say they were merely bystanders who police indiscriminately arrested, including an eighth-grade boy who said he was pepper-sprayed and punched soon after returning from Saturday school and a mother who said she was pepper-sprayed and arrested while trying to stop her sons from joining the fray.
"We don’t assume all cops are bad, so how can they assume all of us are bad?" asked the mother, Trina Stephenson, whose charges include disorderly conduct, rioting and resisting arrest.
The police department’s press office did not respond to questions about the incident or allegations by people involved. The Bronx District Attorney's office provided criminal complaints for the six adults arrested, but not the juveniles.
According to witnesses as well as people who were arrested, on Saturday evening some building residents and a few police patrol officers were standing near the corner of 163rd Street and Teller Avenue, where a mobile police surveillance tower was installed about two weeks earlier due to gang activity in the area.
Sometime before 6 p.m., the first bottles began to fall and shatter on the pavement, sending residents scurrying and officers calling for backup. One officer from the 44th precinct who asked not to be named said objects had been thrown at cops from rooftops in that area before.
As officers arrived, they began to round up young people who were standing around the intersection or in the courtyard of the complex that includes the building from where the bottles were tossed, according to witnesses.
A police van soon carted away several suspects, most of them young people, witnesses said. But more bottles continued to fall, prompting more officers to arrive.
A YouTube video containing explicit language taken from one of the buildings in the complex shows dozens of marked and unmarked police cars filling multiple blocks around the intersection.
While officers flooded the building and courtyard, residents of the complex began to gather outside to see what was happening and to check if anyone they knew had been arrested.
Stephenson, 33, who was outside when the bottles landed, said that when she saw the first wave of officers arrive, she rushed to grab her two teenage sons. She was shielding one son and clutching the other when cops began to pull the three apart, then pepper spray and handcuff her, she said.
Stephenson, who lives in Middletown, N.Y., but was visiting relatives in the neighborhood where she grew up, said she and others were careful not to fight officers during the incident.
"We’re not stupid," she said. "We know what’s going to happen if we hit them back."
Alshante Baker, 14, an eighth grader at nearby Bronx Early College Academy, had just returned from classes he takes at the school on Saturdays to prepare for the high school entrance exams.
After he dropped his backpack in his aunt’s apartment inside the complex, he went back to the courtyard to find out what was happening.
As soon as he stepped outside, police officers yelled at, shoved and handcuffed him, and he was hit with pepper spray in his left eye, he said. He was then arrested.
Baker’s father, Jermaine Brown, 40, said his son is a straight-A student who spends most afternoons inside to avoid trouble.
"They arrested a model kid for no reason," Brown said Monday afternoon, before taking his son to the hospital to have his eye examined.
"I’ve lived in this area for 25 years and I’ve never seen anything like this," Brown added.
Other witnesses said they saw other young people punched and pepper sprayed, including a girl with asthma, Shanic Williams, 14, who said she had trouble breathing after being sprayed.
Officer Julian Martinez "suffered substantial pain and a sprained hand" when a 19-year-old man kicked Martinez while he was trying to make an arrest, according to the complaint.
Maria Lazo, the superintendent of a building that faces the one where the incident occurred, witnessed part of the skirmish. She said cops in the area are sometimes too aggressive, but mainly, "They’re here trying to protect the rest of us."
Most of the blame for Saturday’s uproar, she said, belonged to whoever threw the bottles. "It bothers me when people do stuff like that," said Lazo, "because the whole community gets messed up."
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