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Originally Posted by Burnin' oil
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I just reviewed the article. I am going to assume that the article is accurate because of the amount of time that has passed between the incident and the publish date.
Good shooting. If the closing distance was only 8 feet, as the article stated, then I would say Very Good Shooting.
The article establishes the following;
-house is a dope house. vehicle and ped traffic all hours of the night. (meth and heroin, both felony drugs in any usable amount)
-Dead Suspect meth user with long history of drug use, per his family.
-Dead Suspect likely small time meth dealer.
-Dead Suspect authorized his house to be used as flop house by dealers.
-Dead Suspect's girlfriend has lived at the house.
-Dead Suspect's girlfriend "moved out???" and back in. and back out. and back in. and back out... (you have to be familiar with the lifestyle that these people live to understand this)
-Dead Suspect advanced on Officer, while holding a deadly weapon in a striking position.
-Dead Suspect is now dead.
The point man was a Sgt. This tells us two things. 1. He was the most experienced, most highly skilled operator in the unit. 2. There was someone of higher rank running the operation.
Also interesting to note that the Sgt had one officer involved shooting in his history and that that shooting was also a good shooting. How do I assume that the prior shooting was clean? Because if it wasn't, you can bet your bottom dollar that The Salt Lake Tribune would be running that history in the second or third paragraph of this story, not on the third page.
And one more thing about my prior rant about "The War on Drugs." The only reason that I think that its stupid is because I live in a 5000 sq foot house on a street with 3 MD's, a fed ex pilot, a retired military officer, a Banker, an architect, a Charter Cable exec, a clothing line owner and a General Contractor. That's it, 12 houses. (the 12th is vacant and for sale).
If I lived in a neighborhood like the one where this shooting occurred, then I probably wouldn't think that "The War on Drugs" is so stupid.