Police Shoot & Kill Grandfather While Responding To Burglary Call

[cali]

A grandfather checking on his neighbor is shot and killed by Fort Worth police. The shots rang out early Tuesday morning near Woodhaven Country Club, in east Fort Worth.

Those close to the family say the victim lived nearby and heard his neighbor’s burglar alarm. Neighbor Jerry Wayne Waller then apparently went outside to see what was going on.


The neighbors in the Woodhaven Country Club area and generally know each other pretty well. Becky Haskin, a former Fort Worth City Councilmember, lives in the area and said she believes Waller, “…was doing what neighbors do probably checking on the neighbor that the alarm went off.”

The elderly man, who was armed at the time, was shot and killed in his own driveway by police responding to a burglary call. “We heard five shots,” Haskin recalled. They were just rapid fire one after the other.”

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After the shooting Haskin said, “The police officers were sobbing uncontrollably and very distraught.”

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http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/05/28/police-shoot-kill-grandfather-while-responding-to-burglary-call/

[Ed Suspicious]

1. At least the "shoot first ask questions later" crowd was distraught.

[Cali_Democrat]

4. They say they were "distraught"

but I don't buy it.

[Orrex]

6. I believe that they were distraught.

That's a lot of paperwork to fill out. They were probably very upset.

[appleannie1]

2. the way to stop a good guy with a gun is another good guy with a gun. Just ask the NRA.

[uponit7771]

3. "..shot and killed in his own driveway.." TRIGGER HAPPY POLICE!!

[Comrade Grumpy]

5. When gun culture and cop culture collide.

Cops are scared to death of being killed by one of the 300 million or so guns floating around this country, so they are on a hair trigger. They also know they will likely suffer no serious consequences for killing someone in a split second. In this case, the cops clearly shot too fast, without knowing who they were shooting at. This guy died because he had a gun.

[Jamastiene]

7. Too bad he didn't have a gun or he could have protected himself....

Oh, wait. He did have a gun. The police in this case should be upset with themselves. The killed the guy without confirming he was just a neighbor trying to check on his neighbor. That was unnecessary, but he was in the wrong place at the wrong time too. This is sad all the way around, if you ask me.

[rdharma]

8. But the old man was a "responsible gun owner"!

I doubt this old guy's neighbors wanted the old man to act as an armed first responder to their burglar alarm.