A case of appropriate shot placement (we don't know...does anyone have this info?) and desired effects not achieved or bad shot placement and expected results. Wonder how many steps he would take if LeMas was used with same shot placement??
Dying 7 hours later means a really poor shot OR the ammo did not perform as GEL demonstrated it would, as if you could corrolate it to living tissue.
Article in Denver Post
CU officer cleared in hospital shooting
By Tom McGhee
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 04/10/2008 12:55:22 PM MDT
Terrance Baughman (Brian Brainerd, The Denver Post)A Boulder district attorney's investigation has found a police officer who shot and killed a man threatening to blow up a Boulder hospital acted properly.
Terrance Ashley Baughman, 32, sealed his fate when he got up from a wheelchair in a vestibule and walked into the lobby of Boulder Community Hospital holding what he said was a bomb.
His attempt to move into the hospital followed a period of four hours in which police tried to talk him into surrendering.
The team's orders: attempt to stop the man by firing non-lethal projectiles at him.
Two officers fired four non-lethal rounds. "Baughman doubled at the waist but did not go to the ground," according to the report.
He moved back into the lobby headed toward three police officers. Two more non lethal rounds exploded from the muzzles of police guns.
University of Colorado police Cpl. Matt DeLaria
fired a single .308 caliber slug from his Remington 700 sniper rifle into Baughman.
He returned to vestibule and collapsed. Baughman died seven hours later.
No explosives were found.
DeLaria has returned to work after being placed on administrative leave pending the results of the investigation.
Baughman, who turned over a sheaf of papers containing a rambling anti-government screed to officers before he was shot, arrived at the hospital at about 8:50 a.m. on March 17.
"I need you to pay attention to me clearly. I have a detonator and I'm sitting next to an oxygen tank," he said in a 911 call to Boulder PD communications.
Police found him sitting in a wheelchair facing the interior of the hospital.
"Officers observed Mr. Baughman to be sitting in a wheelchair with a green oxygen tank. He also had a black computer case and was holding a red case ... in his lap. The red case was attached to his hand by some type of cord. He told the officers that he had a bomb," the review said.
"This is a pressure switch connected with wire to the oxygen tank," Baughman screamed. "There's shrapnel, it'll go everywhere. If you mess with me I'll blow it."
Patients and hospital employees were moved to safety and a standoff began.
Baughman had an extensive criminal history including assault, weapon possession, arson, burglary and robbery and had a record in Texas, Nevada, South Carolina, Florida, Oklahoma and Colorado, according to the report.
During the standoff, police consulted a psychiatrist who knew Baughman. They learned that Baughman was a sociopath whose threats should be taken seriously, and that he had stopped taking medication for his mental problems, the report said.
"At about 1 p.m. Baughman's demeanor changed from calm to agitated. On the tape recording Baughman can be heard to state "I can start moving over there and you guys can start shooting me ... if you guys are going to start busting caps you should do it real soon."
Tom McGhee: (303)954-1671 or
tmcghee@denverpost.com
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