Gunman Killed After Taking Girlfriend Hostage

[WhiteTara]

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2016/03/25/gunman-killed-after-taking-girlfriend-hostage/

REDLANDS, Calif. (AP) – A gunman took his estranged girlfriend hostage for hours Thursday afternoon and shot her from point-blank range on a sidewalk before police killed him, authorities said.

Andrew Mike, 29, of Downey, died at the scene following a lengthy effort to negotiate with him as he sat holding the woman, who was critically injured.

The man shot the woman in the torso, prompting police sharpshooters to open fire, police said.

“He did fire at her … the officers fired at him to try to stop that threat and be able to try to save her life,” Police Chief Mark Garcia said during a news conference in the university town about 70 miles east of Los Angeles.

Officers dragged the woman, who was not moving, to an armored vehicle

[PeoViejo]

1. Do we need to see this?

It's a lot like the public display of an aborted Fetus. It surely seems to have the same intent.

[malaise]

3. Huh? n/t

[Eleanors38]

5. Well, it is Gunz Discussion.

[DustyJoe]

2. Borrowing responses from prior incidents

Couldn't they have just shot to wound this poor man ? They could have shot him in the legs, shot the gun out of his hand or used a tazer or beanbag shot. Why kill him ? ......

meanwhile in the real world ..

Fantastic removal of a piece of filth from the world, too bad they couldn't off the scum before he shot his girlfriend.

[flamin lib]

4. A woman is shot by a domestic abuser every 16 hours, yet many states still have no

gun removal policy for even those men convicted of domestic violence.

WTF is wrong with a country that puts guns above lives?

[Eleanors38]

6. "Gun removal policy:" Hell, you can't even get 'em out of GD.