Posted on 01/06/2018 6:28:42 PM PST by dragnet2
Homeowner Mark Parkinson and his wife Diana. (Photo: WSBTV.com)
WALKER COUNTY, Ga. Agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are investigating an officer-involved shooting in Walker County in which a deputy shot and killed a man in his Rossville home.
The incident began in the early-morning hours of New Year’s Day when a woman called 911 and said her estranged daughter-in-law threatened to kill her child and then herself.
When deputies arrived at the home on Meadowview Drive in Rossville, the family was sleeping.
The estranged daughter-in-law was living in the home with her parents while going through a divorce.
Because the 911 call claimed there could be a murder-suicide in progress, deputies surrounded the home and GBI officials said the deputies stated several times who they were, but the family members said they were sleeping and didn’t hear the deputies.
When Mark Parkinson, who lives in the house, finally heard the commotion outside, he got out of bed to see what was going on.
He was armed, looking through a window, and that’s when deputy John Chandler fired a fatal shot.
The victim’s wife, Diana Parkinson, said her husband would have never had the gun out if he had known there were police officers on the property. She said they didn’t know who was there.
“By the time I got into the kitchen, which probably was 30 seconds after he got up, he was already on the floor and had been shot,” Diana Parkinson said.
GBI agents are working to determine whether the 911 call was fake. Right now, they said, they have no evidence to validate an emergency.
#7. Honking a horn for about 60 seconds will wake the dead.
Wonder if the dil husband is involved?
On the other hand their PA systems would allow officers to easily ID themselves and order the occupants of the residence to come out.
They had to do a "wellness" check.
Which apparently you do at night after an anonymous tip tells you a couple in their seventies has not been seen for a few hours.
Real case.
Real dead guy.
Someone needs to go to jail for a long time for this. Preferably the chief of police, as well as his trainee.
And the town/city needs to support the man’s life for the rest of her life, and well, too.
I’m very confident the lawsuits will cost the tax payers big league dollars in this case. Sadly, even if the wife is taken care of for life, her husband is still dead.
No winners here.
If I saw flashing lights outside I would:
1) Assume they are there for a neighbor
2) Peek our the window without any sort of weapon in my hands
The flashing lights definitely tell you who is outside. Police should have had them on.
Now I’m wondering if just peeking out furtively, which I’ve been known to do when there are flashing lights outside, is enough to get you shot-even with no weapon on you.
Yeah. I was thinking a lot about that.
A few weeks ago I was watching the Alaska State Troopers show.
Middle of the night Dispatch gets a call about a Car Horn blaring, Thinking that there may have been an accident Troopers are sent to check it out.
You can hear the horn from mile(s) away.
Troopers finally locate the car with horn blaring parked in front of a house. They beat on the door/blip the sirens, on the PA System etc. PARKED RIGHT UP ALMOST TOUCHING THE HOUSE WITH THE PATROL UNIT BUMPER!!!
After a few minutes somebody answers the door. There were 2 people inside the house with the blaring car horn parked in front of the house and they SLEPT THROUGH IT!
The owner gets a wrench and disconnects the battery to stop the horn.
I’m guessing the relay froze in the ON position.
Hell I can hear the Trash & Recycle Trucks when they are blocks away from Our house in the AM.
Then again I can’t hear the Wife 10’ away sometimes.
She blames Selective Hearing ;)
if they’d had used the tools they had at their disposal, such as their PA systems,
= = =
Or phone the occupants inside the house.
Did the wife admit to having been the one who made the 911 call? This is bullshit. If you called 911 would you go back to sleep? Or would you wake up your husband and tell him, then stay awake, turn on all your lights open the door and wait for the police? How long did it take for the police to respond and reach the scene? Hours? Minutes? Something in the water in Georgia. Same place that guy locked his kid in the car for most of the day during the summer and the boy died from the heat, and the guy claimed he just “forgot” the boy was in the vehicle. Yikes. What’s with GA anyway.
Anyone looking at the estranged husband as the caller?
It's now reported by the victims wife, they clearly heard dogs barking outside the residence.
The taxpayers now have to foot the bill for another fearful cretin with a badge. Eliminate their immunity from civil action, just as doctors have to carry malpractice insurance, police officers should be required to carry professional liability insurance as a condition of employment. Can’t find an insurance company willing to insure you...find another line of work.
No, I am not. I am simply pointing out that your assertion that ‘A police car public address system can be heard inside every house’ is not longer always true. At one point I had a recently retired Crown Victoria police car that the police had removed the lights and radio from prior to sale - but left the siren and PA system mostly intact. My friend had a new ‘super energy efficient house’ that was disturbingly quiet inside. Experimentation followed and we found that literally nobody in his development cul de sac could hear the car’s *very* loud PA system in their new homes.
I will be interesting to find out where this call originated
Not what happened in this case. The victims wife said they heard barking dogs outside prior to the husband being shot.
So this would clearly establish the the residences was not sound proof.
If occupants in a nearly sound proof residence could not hear an amplified public address system, they certainly couldn't hear someone verbally, "Calling out".
It does. And based on the 911 call, the caller suspect is likely tied/connected to the victims family.
That should narrow things down.
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