INDIANAPOLIS -- A 29-year-old Indianapolis police officer shot during a weekend traffic stop has died, city and police officials said Wednesday.
Officer David Moore was taken off life support Wednesday morning and died, Public Safety Chief Frank Straub told WISH-TV. Police Sgt. Paul Thompson confirmed the death.
Moore was shot in the face, chest and leg during a Sunday morning traffic stop. Police have accused a 60-year-old ex-convict of shooting the officer. The suspect is in jail pending charges.
Police Chief Paul Ciesielski said Tuesday night that tests showed Moore was too badly wounded to survive and that Moore's family was talking to doctors about donating his organs.
only 29. Rest in Peace Officer Moore.
60-year-old Thomas Hardy, 11-time convict, parolee, should have been in prison for life!
01-26-2011 12:37 PM
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With all due respect to LEO's everywhere, I would never be able to commit to a relationship with one. I would be out of my mind with fear every time he went to work.
01-26-2011 12:44 PM
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(01-24-2011 06:32 PM)IMaDick Wrote: Police are targets because they can't instigate the shooting, most of the officers know when they are going after violent offenders, most of them would shoot first if they could.
It's sad that the rules put great people in harms way.
Thanks for the updates on these stories LC.
in a 24-hour period, 11 police officers have been shot in the line of duty in the U.S. it's a war like any on foreign soil.
i know you feel the way i do over this Dick. heavy-hearted.
i update this thread far too often.
Dick, i was never told i had to wait for them to shoot first. if a gun came out, i could fire at will.
You can see it everyday, an officer shouting for a violent offender to drop his weapon, you and I were both trained to bring these guys to jail, shooting and killing the suspect is always the last resort.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
THE SEATTLE TIMES
Corrections officer Jayme Biendl had repeatedly complained to her supervisors about working alone in the chapel at the Monroe prison. The 5-foot-3, 130-pound officer also complained that security cameras in the area didn't work. Late Saturday, her worst fears were realized when she was strangled in the chapel.
"She was feeling unsafe about this because she's off in the chapel and oftentimes supervising lots of inmates, and she had let her supervisors know that she was not feeling safe," said Tracey Thompson, secretary-treasurer for the state corrections officers union, Teamsters Local 117. "My understanding is there were repeated complaints."
Biendl, 34, was pronounced dead at the Washington State Reformatory Unit in the prison complex at 10:49 p.m. The slaying is the first of a corrections staff member at Monroe and the first of an officer in a state prison since 1979.
Officials of the Department of Corrections (DOC) and Monroe police identified the suspect as Byron Scherf, 52, a "three-strikes," 200-pound repeat rapist serving life without the possibility of parole.
Scherf entered the state prison system in 1997 as a high-security inmate, but he qualified for medium security in 2009 because of good behavior, said Scott Frakes, Monroe prison superintendent.
The first indication something was wrong Saturday came around 9:15 p.m., during a prisoner head count in the reformatory unit. The count found one prisoner missing, and Scherf was located minutes later in the chapel lobby. He told officers he had planned to escape but changed his mind, according to DOC.
An hour later, during a shift change, other officers discovered Biendl hadn't turned in her keys and radio and went to her post in the chapel, DOC said. Staff found her unresponsive, performed CPR and called 911. DOC routinely conducts internal reviews of high-profile incidents, but DOC Secretary Eldon Vail said he is considering requesting an external agency review the case.
"Everybody's stunned, and we're probably going to be in that place for a while," Vail said.
Former Officer of Year
Biendl, of Granite Falls, had been with the department since 2002 and was named Officer of the Year in 2008 at the Monroe facility.
"She was active, loved horses and just was beloved by her co-workers at the facility," Thompson said. "Obviously being officer of the year, this was her career. She took her job really seriously, and she did it really well."
Monroe police say Biendl showed no visible signs of sexual assault, according to Frakes. The Snohomish County Medical Examiner will make the final determination.
Monroe police Sunday obtained two search warrants related to their investigation, including one to search Scherf for physical evidence. Scherf has asked for a lawyer and was being held in the prison's segregation unit.
Scherf is a twice-convicted rapist with a long criminal history. In the late 1970s, at age 19, he was convicted of second-degree assault for trying to rape a Pierce County woman and served two years of a 10-year term, according to court records. On parole, he kidnapped a young waitress from Pierce County, raped her, doused her with gasoline and set her on fire. She survived; he served 12 years in prison.
Scherf was released in 1993, began therapy and was enrolled in college, according to court records and accounts in The Spokesman Review.
In 1995, he abducted and raped a Spokane real-estate agent after making an appointment with her to see a home. Scherf released his victim when she promised not to report him to police. She did, and Scherf ultimately was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The officers' job
The Monroe Correctional Complex, the largest in the state, houses inmates under maximum, medium and minimum security, with capacity for 2,400 men. The complex has five units, including ones for sex offenders and the mentally ill, and employs about 1,200.
Officers carry no weapons — no guns, pepper spray or batons — while on duty at the Monroe prison. Biendl had worked alone in the chapel since 2005.
Biendl at times might have been accompanied by one or two full-time paid chaplains or volunteers, or by inmate janitors known as "porters," Frakes said.
Most inmates are free to visit the chapel, Frakes said, except for inmates in segregation for bad behavior or those in the mental-health unit with a history of violence.
Typically, two unarmed corrections officers are on duty with 240 inmates in a living unit, DOC spokesman Chad Lewis said. During the day, officers mingle with inmates who are outside their cells, visiting, studying, or attending chapel.
"We want them walking around and having social contact," he said. "We're trying to create a positive social environment."
Weapons not only work against that goal, Lewis said, but they can be turned against corrections officers. All staff members are trained in defensive tactics.
"It's always dangerous to have offenders nearby," Lewis said. "We're always outnumbered."
Frakes said female officers began working all posts inside prisons about 30 years ago and began to be seen as "equal to and just as valuable" as male officers.
GRITNEY, FLA. — A corrections officer was killed Wednesday during the pursuit of murder suspect Wade Willams, who was shot dead in a shootout, officials and witnesses said.
Williams shot Col. Greg Malloy, a K-9 officer who had been with the department since 1988, Department of Corrections spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger confirmed. He later died.
Williams killed his parents on Jan. 26 in Cottondale and has been on the run ever since, authorities said. He was spotted Wednesday morning in a wooded area about 8 a.m. north of Gritney and Westville. The hunter, Thomas Crews, who spotted Williams, said he stumbled across Williams' camp. Williams identified himself as "Wade" and said, "I'm going to shoot you," Crews told The News Herald.
Williams subsequently shot at Crews eight to 10 times, he said, and he shot back once but Williams ran into the woods.
Law enforcement officials then were notified of the situation, and multiple agencies began to pursue Williams.
Authorities pursued Williams, not far from the initial search last week, for about an hour before they became involved in a shootout with Williams south of Baker Landing Lane, which is along the Choctawhatchee River north of Westville.
It is unclear whether two officers were shot, as originally reported. Malloy, was shot and airlifted to Fort Walton Beach Medical Center, where he later died, Jackson County Sheriff Lou Roberts said. Another officer was shot during the incident but his identity and the extent of his injuries has not yet been released.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Three U.S. marshals were shot while trying to serve a warrant in Elkins this morning. The man who shot them was then killed by law enforcement, according to sources close to the investigation.
The marshals and State Police troopers were at the home of Charles Smith at about 8:30 a.m. to serve a warrant on him for failing to appear in court on possession of drugs and firearms charges, according to sources.
After announcing that they were there to serve a warrant, officers breached the door and stepped into the house.
Smith then opened fire with a shotgun, hitting one marshal in the neck, one in his bulletproof vest and one in the arm or hand, according to sources.
A marshal and trooper then fired at Smith, killing him, according to sources. The trooper likely fired the shot that killed him, sources say.
The marshal shot through the neck was transported to Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown. His condition is unknown.
A statement from the U.S. Marshal's office confirmed that three marshals were shot and that two were taken to a local hospital for treatment and one was transported by helicopter.
State Police spokesman Sgt. Michael Baylous could only confirm that there was a shooting incident in Elkins while officers attempted to serve a warrant.
edit to add:
WOWK
ELKINS -- Authorities with several different law enforcement agencies are on the scene of a fatal shooting in Elkins.
Around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, deputy U.S. Marshals were trying to serve an arrest warrant on Charles Smith at his house on Central Street, according to officials.
When they entered the home, Smith shot one deputy, in the neck. A second deputy was shot in the shoulder with a shotgun. The third deputy received facial injuries from shrapnel from the shotgun, Federal Magistrate Judge John Kaull said.
Officers returned fire, killing Smith, Kaull said.
Two of the deputies have been taken to Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, where they underwent surgery. One of the deputies died at the hospital, according to Kaull.
The third deputy was taken to Davis Memorial Hospital in Elkins.
Smith was armed with both a .45 caliber handgun and a shotgun, Kaull said.
Judge Kaull issued the warrant for Smith, who was wanted on Federal drug charges dating back to 2006, early Wednesday morning, he said.
Smith had lived in the house for about a year, neighbors said.
Authorities have blocked off the streets surrounding the house.
The U.S. Marshals Service didn't immediately release the deputies' names. But Dustin Hotsinpiller, a Bridgeport police officer, confirmed to The Associated Press that the deputy killed was his 24-year-old brother, Derek Hotsinpiller. :(
02-16-2011 04:20 PM
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With all due respect to LEO's everywhere, I would never be able to commit to a relationship with one. I would be out of my mind with fear every time he went to work.
Duchess.... HE..... why did I think you preferred the fairer sex?
Anyway, I don't know how LEO's do it. Knowing every day could be their last when encountering some POS like that. RIP!
With all due respect to LEO's everywhere, I would never be able to commit to a relationship with one. I would be out of my mind with fear every time he went to work.
Duchess.... HE..... why did I think you preferred the fairer sex?
that's an inappropriate comment in this thread which if you read it, is reverent.
02-16-2011 04:31 PM
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:(
Very tragic.
I have nothing but gratitude for these fine people.
My friend is a cop in Richmond, California (near Oakland.)
She is an amazingly brave woman.
I always feel safe when we go out on the town with her!
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