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Police Shoot Dead Grandfather, 72, While Searching the Wrong Home for Burglar
http://www.theblaze.com ^ | 07/27/2013 | Jason Howerton

Posted on 07/26/2013 9:30:35 PM PDT by redreno

Police in Fort Worth, Texas, are blaming “poor lighting” after two officers went to the wrong home in search of a possible burglar and ended up shooting a 72-year-old man dead in his garage. The officers, who are both in their first year with Fort Worth PD, were responding to a burglary alarm on May 28 when the tragic mistake occurred.

“Due to poor lighting conditions, and officers attempting to arrive on the scene undetected,” the cops approached the home of Jerry Waller by mistake, according to an affidavit. The house they were actually supposed to go to was across the street.

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: banglist; donutwatch; fortworth; guncontrol; guns; jbta; justiceforjerry; moronwithbadge; policeshooting; poorlighting; rookiemistake; sourcetitlenoturl; standyourground; texas; warriorcops; wronghouse; wronghouseagain
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1 posted on 07/26/2013 9:30:35 PM PDT by redreno
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To: redreno

Sounds like the police really did act stupidly...


2 posted on 07/26/2013 9:32:32 PM PDT by Errant
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To: redreno

Wonderful. /s


3 posted on 07/26/2013 9:33:02 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: redreno

They shot a dead man?

//I know I know


4 posted on 07/26/2013 9:33:18 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: redreno

I clicked on this thread because I wanted to read how the shot a dead grandfather.


5 posted on 07/26/2013 9:33:57 PM PDT by TheMom (Stressed spelled backwards is Desserts!)
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To: redreno

I guess we won’t be seeing any “Justice for Grandpa” rallies in 100 cities though, huh?


6 posted on 07/26/2013 9:34:45 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Amnesty. The DemocRATS' payback for the 2010 elections.)
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To: redreno
Police Shoot Dead Grandfather, 72, While Searching the Wrong Home for Burglar...

What I'd like to know is, if the Grandfather was dead, why did Police shoot him?

7 posted on 07/26/2013 9:35:26 PM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: redreno
poor bastard might be alive if he only had a dog...
8 posted on 07/26/2013 9:36:03 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: redreno

Sounds justified. He probably drew down on them. /s


9 posted on 07/26/2013 9:36:10 PM PDT by South40
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To: C210N

Practice?


10 posted on 07/26/2013 9:36:34 PM PDT by South40
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To: redreno

So they shot a dead guy? (what horrific writing)

Do they have an editor of any kind? Do they read their “work” before submitting it?


11 posted on 07/26/2013 9:36:48 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: South40

Did they get the dog too???


12 posted on 07/26/2013 9:37:35 PM PDT by Mouton (108th MI Group.....68-71)
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To: C210N

Stupid headline writers can at least be entertaining


13 posted on 07/26/2013 9:38:09 PM PDT by GeronL
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But the officers got to go home at the end of their shift, that's the important thing. </sarc>
14 posted on 07/26/2013 9:38:32 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: GeronL

I thought it was just an example of some form of vicious homicidal necrophilia


15 posted on 07/26/2013 9:39:24 PM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: redreno; a fool in paradise

What’s the news then, if the grandfather was already dead?


16 posted on 07/26/2013 9:40:39 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: redreno
Oh, if only someone would invent a device which can provide a map for the police. Or maybe the cops could remember the even/odd pattern most cities follow for the sides of the streets.
17 posted on 07/26/2013 9:40:55 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (This message has been recorded but not approved by Obama's StasiNet. Read it at your peril.)
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To: South40
Practice?

Obamacare.
18 posted on 07/26/2013 9:42:09 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: redreno

Who shot Jason Howerton’s editor?


19 posted on 07/26/2013 9:42:45 PM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: redreno
Is this the actual title? It says in the title that they shot a Dead Grandfather. While horrible to contemplate, it is not nearly as tragic as what they actually did in shooting an innocent man, a grandfather, dead because they went to the wrong house.

This type of thing happens far too often. Growing up in the late 50s through the 60s, you almost never heard of any such thing. Even the 70s and 80s it was rare. Now it seems to happen all the time.

20 posted on 07/26/2013 9:43:02 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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