Details are forthcoming but apparently they were responding to a domestic call in Stanton Heights.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/04/pittsburgh.officers.shot/index.html
I pray that the officer’s and their families will be ok.
Even worse there are officers down that they can’t reach because the shooter has them covered.
This one is going to be bad.
Our prayers are with them now, take this guy out.
—Update----
Three of Pittsburgh’s finest died on the job today. We all mourn for them and their Families.
Godspeed, RIP
man what the heck is going on I dont know if there is acctualy more shootings of if the mainstream media is just foucusing on it latley.
The will be in my prayers
AK-47 used.
Live streaming RIGHT NOW.
Man aprehended.
3 LEO dead
5 LEO injured.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/video/5839843/index.html
Now they say 5 LEO passed away. But while saying that the screen showed 3 LEO passed away as the text scrolled past. I think the number of murdered LEO quoted as 5 may be wrong…
I saw that on Fox this morning. Prayers sent to the LEO’s involved and their families. I hope, because of the economy, these kind of incidents will not be the sign of the times.
Updated. 3 LEO murdered, 2 in hospital injured or shot.
When swat arrived at about 8AM there was a trade between SWAT and the perp with a constant run of about 80 rounds between SWAT and the perp.
About an hour later, swat and the perp traded a total of another 8-10 rounds.
2 officers left laying shot dead in the street since 7:30am until the scene ends at about 11:10am. Perp has cover fire preventing other LEO from retrieving bodies of the killed LEO.
Perp taken alive, 1 shot to his leg. He was talked down.
We should hang him in front of the county court house. If we don’t get tough on criminals they will continue to do shit like this.
22-23 year old male perp.
1 "assault rifle"AK-47 style, one long hunting rifle, and one pistol and a large ammo supply on hand.
His mother was in the house during the event. She was not being held as a hostage.
Wish these losers would do us all a favor and shoot themselves first.
WTAE just reported that the shooter was a “gun activist” quoting the asshole’s “best” friend.
The above media is playing up that the shooter had a “stockpile” of a “high-powered, assault rifle and pistol”.
what the fuck…
i mean seriously
what the fuck…
thats, what, 6 mass shootings in a month?
i agree with lebowski, i wish these fuckers would just off themselves…
last night I took my mom out to dinner, and in compliance with VA Law, I uncovered my G17 to eat…
my mom asked why I carried it to dinner
i said in case someone like that fuck in New York comes in here.,…
all she did was nod…
According to the asshole “best pal” he says:
He was in fear of govt intervention, military police, the politics… he felt that his home was approached by officers to disarm him due to a domestic dispute. He had said many times that any one that tried to disarm him would be fighting him just they fought our forefathers. He told everyone he fears gun bans, fears the political situation…
Basically, this “best friend” just hammered home every fear we have. This guy is one of us in the fact that he loved his firearms and he like some of you… was willing to fight to the death (nearly) for his possesion of guns.
This is VERY bad for all of us. This may well cause a pressure wave to rip through the government that will empower things that are VERY, VERY bad for our rights. This is bad. OMG, it is bad.
The perp was allegedly a 2 year active MARINE.
NOT A MARINE.
THe United States Marine Corp. tossed him out during boot camp. He is not and was not a real Marine. He was a wanna-be.
THe 80 round gun shot heard at about 8AM was LEO suppression fire as SWAT members attempted to get to the bodies of the 2 officers that where head shot and left in the street. They were not able to make it to the bodies.
I don’t think you can know what was in his head at this point and what he was or wasn’t shooting for.
Three officers are dead and three families are devastated, let’s wait before we jump to any conclusions.
This is bad, but let’s focus on the families of the dead officers. No point in making the same mistake as the media.
I am not making assumptions or accusations. All I did was typed what I heard.
Me saying
This guy is one of us in the fact that he loved his firearms and he like some of you… was willing to fight to the death (nearly) for his possesion of guns.
was what his BEST FRIEND said pretty much word for word. I added the “this guy is one of us” because what he had told his best friends many times (according to the best friend) was about his right to bare arms, his disdain for current federal direction and other things that this and other forums talk about each day. I am only repeating what I hear for those that can not get to the streaming video. Most companies do not allow streaming video.
I’m just sharing what I’m hearing.
I’d like to get more info on this one. This case is a bit different than Oakland, as the Oakland shooter was a clear scumbag with a clear motive
In this instance, are we dealing with a Marine that snapped and started spraying LEO while screaming Molon Labe? Who called the cops? Lots of questions.
The more info there is, the more than can be learned.
As usual the media morons to include Fox News is reporting that he was armed with an automatic “assault rifle” an AK47. The same type of weapon that is favored by the drug cartels.
I am getting sick and tired of the assholes not getting their facts straight before they spout off stupid shit that John Q. Public will hear and not realize the difference.
You are Marine if you make it through the training and actually serve. He did not.