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Baitball Blogger

(46,576 posts)
Tue Aug 19, 2014, 07:36 PM Aug 2014

Innocent woman killed at downtown bar by officer's bullet, chief says (FL)

An Orlando police officer mistakenly shot and killed an innocent woman during a confrontation with a gunman at a downtown bar early Tuesday, according to a preliminary investigation by the police department.

The victim, identified as club patron Maria Fernada Godinez, 22, was shot just before 1 a.m. at the Vixen Bar on South Orange Avenue, Orlando Police Chief John Mina said.

Police were called after a complaint about a man with a gun outside the club who was banging on the door. The suspect was identified as 23-year-old Kody Roach, described in a 911 call by a bar employee as "a gun-wielding maniac."

"There was a guy who was kicked out of a bar because he was too drunk and now he's waving his handgun," the employee told a police dispatcher. "I had to run inside and lock my door before he did something stupid."

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-1-dead-orlando-police-shooting-vixen-20140819,0,825317.story

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Innocent woman killed at downtown bar by officer's bullet, chief says (FL) (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Aug 2014 OP
I hope they arrested that naughty bullet jberryhill Aug 2014 #1
Well, you know those bullets just have minds of their own. nt LisaLynne Aug 2014 #2
Pull the trigger, you never know where they might go jberryhill Aug 2014 #5
Kind of an odd story. The 'gun wielding maniac' Erich Bloodaxe BSN Aug 2014 #3
It's the Orlando Sentinel. Baitball Blogger Aug 2014 #4
So that's what that little circle c is for Boom Sound 416 Aug 2014 #6
No, another officer or officers shot him and the innocent bystanders. Shrike47 Aug 2014 #7
Weird headline cvoogt Aug 2014 #8
How the hell did they shoot an innocent bystander Politicalboi Aug 2014 #9

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
3. Kind of an odd story. The 'gun wielding maniac'
Tue Aug 19, 2014, 07:40 PM
Aug 2014

didn't fire at all according to police, yet somehow the police officer wound up shot in the leg and a bystander wound up dead.

So did the police officer shoot both himself and the bystander?

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)
7. No, another officer or officers shot him and the innocent bystanders.
Tue Aug 19, 2014, 07:51 PM
Aug 2014

Once cops go into shoot mode, the bullets go here, there and everywhere. Damned bullets.

cvoogt

(949 posts)
8. Weird headline
Tue Aug 19, 2014, 07:53 PM
Aug 2014

Did the bullet spontaneously propel itself towards Ms. Godinez? No, Mr. Roach killed her. Interesting that the headline does not reflect this. Blames the bullet rather than the officer?

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