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Showing Original Post only (View all)Florida Man Ordered To Surrender His Firearms, Fatally Shoots The Deputy Who Tries To Take Them [View all]
Okaloosa County Sheriffs Deputy Bill Myers was shot and killed in front of a lawyers office on Tuesday while trying to confiscate firearms from a man who was given a domestic violence injunction.
According to the Associated Press, a tearful Sheriff Larry Ashley described the tragic shooting to reporters, saying that 33-year-old Joel Dixon Smith visited his lawyers office to accept the injunction and turn over his guns to the authorities. Assuming all the firearms were in Smiths car, Deputy Bill Myers went to confiscate the weapons but was shot several times in the back of his head and in the back by Smith, who kept one of his guns concealed on his person. Witnesses say Smith fired eight shots before fleeing the scene in his vehicle.
We heard pop, pop, pop,' said Annie Allen, the witness who called 911. The guy got in his truck and just tore out of the parking lot. When I realized it was an officer that he shot, thats when it really hit me how dangerous it was.
Smith fled to his Comfort Suites hotel room 10 miles away. Police then reported that he barricaded himself in the room until officers flushed him out with tear gas. Joel Dixon Smith came running out of the room, shooting off his gun, but deputies shot him dead before anyone else was hurt.
http://www.inquisitr.com/2440505/florida-man-ordered-to-surrender-his-firearms-fatally-shoots-the-deputy-who-tries-to-take-them
According to the Associated Press, a tearful Sheriff Larry Ashley described the tragic shooting to reporters, saying that 33-year-old Joel Dixon Smith visited his lawyers office to accept the injunction and turn over his guns to the authorities. Assuming all the firearms were in Smiths car, Deputy Bill Myers went to confiscate the weapons but was shot several times in the back of his head and in the back by Smith, who kept one of his guns concealed on his person. Witnesses say Smith fired eight shots before fleeing the scene in his vehicle.
We heard pop, pop, pop,' said Annie Allen, the witness who called 911. The guy got in his truck and just tore out of the parking lot. When I realized it was an officer that he shot, thats when it really hit me how dangerous it was.
Smith fled to his Comfort Suites hotel room 10 miles away. Police then reported that he barricaded himself in the room until officers flushed him out with tear gas. Joel Dixon Smith came running out of the room, shooting off his gun, but deputies shot him dead before anyone else was hurt.
http://www.inquisitr.com/2440505/florida-man-ordered-to-surrender-his-firearms-fatally-shoots-the-deputy-who-tries-to-take-them
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Florida Man Ordered To Surrender His Firearms, Fatally Shoots The Deputy Who Tries To Take Them [View all]
SecularMotion
Sep 2015
OP
There's nothing more persuasive than an argument with lots of CAPS LOCK...
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2015
#12
How 'bout a link to this "according to the NRA" thing you mentioned, mmkay?
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2015
#9
Who said anything about enemy occupying armies? You said more guns aren't the answer.
Nuclear Unicorn
Sep 2015
#15
None with firearms. Gotta start somewhere, and it might as well be with the worst offender.
lastlib
Sep 2015
#21
Own guns if you want to. But what do you care if ownership happens to go down? n/t
nomorenomore08
Sep 2015
#31
...and a tragedy for the victim's family. Note that there are no words of this sort from the OP
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2015
#4
Absolutely, I could not agree more, so many that suffer get lost and or ignored in these
AuntPatsy
Sep 2015
#5
Three antigun posters on this thread have had nothing to say about the victim or his family
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2015
#14
Only gun haters have mentioned the Second Amendment in this thread, yourself included
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2015
#35
You should talk to someone about the 'seeing things that aren't actually there' bit
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2015
#37
Evil, mind controlling ghosts and inanimate objects that bend humans to their will?
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2015
#36