Monday Feel Good Stories
DA Drops Charges Against Couple Who Shot Deputy, Blames Deputy For Getting Shot
The Caldwell County district attorney said the pair who shot Deputy Jay Johnson had every right to defend themselves.
by Sandy Malone
Caldwell County, TX – A Caldwell County deputy was heralded as a hero after being shot in the line of duty.But a year later, the prosecutor dropped the charges against the people who shot him and blamed the incident on the deputy instead.
The incident occurred shortly after midnight on Feb. 2, 2018, when Caldwell County Sheriff’s Deputy Jay Johnson responded to a call about the theft of a tool chest on Hidden Oak Road in Dale, KVUE reported.
The victim told Deputy Johnson that he suspected his neighbor, with whom he had an ongoing dispute, had stolen the tools, according to KVUE.
So the deputy headed over to the property of Kimberley Moore on foot, and without his police car.
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Read the rest of the article here: Defense Maven
Man claims self-defense in shooting death of stepson, police say
By Jim Guy
A Fresno man who is a former reserve police officer told investigators that he fatally shot his stepson Thursday evening to defend his wife and himself after a violent disturbance near North Cedar and East Ashlan avenues.Detectives are still determining whether the man, identified as Steven Perry, 61, acted in self-defense, according to Sgt. Andre Benson on Friday. No charges were filed at the time of the incident.
Elden Baker III, 42, died in the disturbance, which took place in the 4300 block of East Buckingham Way.
Perry served as a reserve officer at a police agency that Benson did not identify, outside of Fresno County.
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Read the rest of the disturbing incident here: Fresno Bee
Man Arrested After 7-Year-Old Girl Shot In Dallas Road Rage Incident
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A child is recovering from a gunshot wound after a violent road rage incident Dallas Police said was started by the the man whose vehicle she was a passenger in.
Dallas Police arrested Jaceob Soto, 27 after the shooting in the 3500 block of Julius Schepps Fwy shortly before 9:00 p.m. Friday.
Soto told police while he was driving his Chevy Tahoe on Northwest Hwy, he became involved in a road rage incident with the a driver of a silver Ford Mustang.
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Read the rest of the article here: DFW CBS Local
Slow start to the week, Delta Whiskies and Whiskettes, with one mort, and two either recovered or incarcerated. It takes a very special type of stupid to initiate a gunfight with a child near by.
Category: Feel Good Stories
So with case #1, I wonder if the missing toolbox was ever found, and where.
Might check on Craigslist.
I can’t wait for the comments on story #1 😀
VERY bad decision by the DA. No imminent threat to life or property, no idea who or what their target was…reckless endangerment at best. The article faults the cop for approaching on foot without the car, but unless the cop was sneaking from bush to bush (which the story does not support) the homeowner should have been charged.
I’d love to see what will never make the light of day now that the charges are dropped.
I used to live one county over from Caldwell County. Small, rural Texas county, the kind where the Judge, the Sheriff, the DA, and the defense attorney are all related.
Ordinarily this would have been a slam dunk. Citizen (subject) used force against a LEO, the hammer would come down.
Total conjecture, but I’m betting they uncovered some serious inconsistencies in the story being told from the LEO perspective. Things best kept from the spotlight that a trial would shine down on lovely little Caldwell.
I’m surprised the powers that be over there haven’t told that deputy to STFU with the victim card.
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Something else was going on.
Trip flares would have prevented this.
26Limabeans;
Talk about trip flares, when I was in the NY Natl. Guard back in 1975, we were up in Camp Drum and out in the field and those flare trip wires were set around our bivouac perimeter and one of the flares was set up across the freight train tracks that were used to transport armor in and out of the camp. During the night one of those freight trains tripped the flare and blinded the engineer for a few minutes and he jumped off the car and was really pissed off. I figured that if maybe the tracks weren’t used that much, maybe some rust on the rails could have meant an unused track by the guys setting up the flares.
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder. That Kel-Tec, to my eye, is ugly. OTOH, it may be handy as a bludgeon.
After you empty the mag(s) of 30 rounds of .22 Mag at your target, you mean.
Not all that different from a Five-Seven. But cheaper.
I know someone that carries one, mostly as his “car gun”. Not really sure about his reasoning, other than 30 > 17.
The fuck is with that first story? Cop gets shot responding to a call and they shoot him in their driveway and get away scott-free? That’s not a feel good story. Those fucks should be in jail for reckless use of a firearm.