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11-24-2007, 01:58

I was a dispatcher. 3d shift, O dark thirty, 911 call. "Some guy is coming through my window". I talk to the guy, my partner gets squads going. "He's crawling in on top of the dresser in front of the window. I have a gun, can I shoot the guy?" I tell him I can't make that call, my partner updates the squads that the caller is armed and prepared to shoot, squads still still enroute. "Stop or I'll shoot man!""I mean it, I will shoot you" "STOP OR I'LL SHOOT" . . . BOOM!

We both jumped in our chairs. Partner advises squads shots fired and tones out the paramedics. Caller tells me "I shot him". I asked if he hit him and where. Caller advises me guy was still proned out on top of the dresser and not moving. Asked the caller if he can get to an exterior door. Front door. Told him take the gun with him, unload it at the front door, leave the gun on the deck and step outside with his hands where the officers can see them. Squads updated with description of caller. Contact made, scene secured, medics in. This occurred two minutes away from the regional trauma center. Meds load and go.

Talked with the Lt. on the paramedic rig later, said guy shoulda died. .44 round entered just inside of his left shoulder traveled down his torso missing all the vital organs, down his left leg, and blew out his left heel. Life as he has known it is over.

Officer investigates, Mr. Unlucky MF comes home drunk off his ass, tries his key in the door and it doesn't work, he thinks cause he is too drunk to make it work, so, as he had apparently done many times before, he goes around to his bedroom window to climb in. Ever notice how houses in some subdivisions are architecually identical? Unlucky MF was three doors off, and so drunk he did not notice the person screaming at him from "his" bed. At the time, my state did not have a "defense of castle" privilege for the use of deadly force, but no criminal charges were filed.

Mr. MF and his attorney bring a civil suit. Pop quiz, hotshots. What result and why?

11-24-2007, 01:58	#16
Remington Raidr Guest Posts: n/a	In my prior life . . . I was a dispatcher. 3d shift, O dark thirty, 911 call. "Some guy is coming through my window". I talk to the guy, my partner gets squads going. "He's crawling in on top of the dresser in front of the window. I have a gun, can I shoot the guy?" I tell him I can't make that call, my partner updates the squads that the caller is armed and prepared to shoot, squads still still enroute. "Stop or I'll shoot man!""I mean it, I will shoot you" "STOP OR I'LL SHOOT" . . . BOOM! We both jumped in our chairs. Partner advises squads shots fired and tones out the paramedics. Caller tells me "I shot him". I asked if he hit him and where. Caller advises me guy was still proned out on top of the dresser and not moving. Asked the caller if he can get to an exterior door. Front door. Told him take the gun with him, unload it at the front door, leave the gun on the deck and step outside with his hands where the officers can see them. Squads updated with description of caller. Contact made, scene secured, medics in. This occurred two minutes away from the regional trauma center. Meds load and go. Talked with the Lt. on the paramedic rig later, said guy shoulda died. .44 round entered just inside of his left shoulder traveled down his torso missing all the vital organs, down his left leg, and blew out his left heel. Life as he has known it is over. Officer investigates, Mr. Unlucky MF comes home drunk off his ass, tries his key in the door and it doesn't work, he thinks cause he is too drunk to make it work, so, as he had apparently done many times before, he goes around to his bedroom window to climb in. Ever notice how houses in some subdivisions are architecually identical? Unlucky MF was three doors off, and so drunk he did not notice the person screaming at him from "his" bed. At the time, my state did not have a "defense of castle" privilege for the use of deadly force, but no criminal charges were filed. Mr. MF and his attorney bring a civil suit. Pop quiz, hotshots. What result and why?