Posted on 03/11/2005 6:39:06 AM PST by mhking
This is a breaking news situation.
A man entered a courtroom in the Fulton County Courthouse this morning and shot a Fulton County Sheriff's deputy, a clerk and a judge; there are reports from both WSB and WAGA, the judge is deceased.
The perp has carjacked multiple vehicles -- now on his third -- and is still at large.
I've just come from downtown Atlanta, and the city is a madhouse.
Oh and I forgot to add: I live and work in Atlanta/Fulton Co., and my boss had jury duty at the beginning of this week. She was in the pool for this very trial. Fortunately she got dismissed, but I'd have really hated it if it had worked out that she'd been on that jury.
Agree.
I sat on a jury at the Fulton Co. courthouse a year ago. As I recall, there were 3-4 deputies at the entrance, but the exit was less guarded. Just my recollection.
Yes. And you may be thinking of the HBO Autopsy programs with Dr. Badden. They covered the forensic findings in that case. The officer's name was Donna Payant.
When I started in '80, there were only 3-4 of us females working at Auburn, which is an all-male maximum security prison in central New York. At the time there were only two females prisons in the state...Bedford HIlls and Albion. Because there were only so many officer positions at each facility, you had to go where the openings were. Back then you had to have a year on the job in order to be able to transfer to a facility closer to your home. The regular academy program was six weeks, but because of staffing demands, the group of officers Donna Payant was in only had 3 weeks of academy training. When I was hired, I didn't even go to the academy until 9 months after the fact. By then Payant had already been killed. Right after she was murdered, they went back to the six week program, which was what I finally ended up going through. I never worked at a female facility, only with males. I actually preferred working with male inmates. I have two sisters, and before becoming a prison guard I worked in office situations with other women. I've heard that female inmates are worse than the men and I'm rather glad that I never had to deal with them. I can't really recall ever feeling threatened by an inmate. You just always had to be aware of your surroundings, who was around you and keep your wits about you. I never allowed them to intimidate me, never backed down from any of them, and got in their faces when I needed to. I'm sure many of them wanted to punch me out, but none of them did. I did get sucker punched in the jaw once during a yard riot. It was dark though and I never saw which inmate in the crowd popped me. That was the only real assault I ever experienced in over 23 years, so I consider myself pretty lucky.
Boy that's just poorly designed. Out here at least downtown and in hollywood, the entrance and exit is the same door.
At a minimum, you'd think the guards at the door would have been close enough, heard the screaming and wondered what was going on.
They do. He was on the inside, as was the weapon.
Once. The guy in front of me. Same cop, same judge. She (the cop) had absolutely no idea where he had parked, the judge had to let him go. He didn't like cutting the revenue stream even that little bit.
Naturally she was certain she remembered exactly where I parked. The fact that she was wrong had no impact what so ever on the judge...
I get that, but how do armed guards assigned to keep people with weapons out of the courthouse not manage to keep a man that has just killed three people inside the courthouse?
Just so we break your streak of "every time" here's a link to a male officer who had his gun taken and was later killed wiht his own firearm.
Maybe it's just something here in King County here's another male officer killed by his own gun.
Maybe it happens more frequently with female officers, I dont' know, but you couldn't prove it by the numbers in this neck of the woods.
Nope. Jeopardy attaches when you're charged originally, and isn't resolved until there's a verdict. In this case, there was no verdict.
Nope. Jeopardy attaches when you're charged originally, and isn't resolved until there's a verdict. In this case, there was no verdict.
Please pardon the interruption, but do you know the time line for the different vehicles has has hijacked today?
Please pardon the interruption, but do you know the timeline for the different vehicles he has hijacked today?
I'll start:
1. SUV
2. Tow Truck
3. (Was there a third?)
4. Honda
5. Whatever he has now.
That's as near as I can figure it.....
Someone may have more recent and/or detailed knowledge, but that's what I remember about it. I think the perp was a) very clever and b) had a bit of luck on his side.
He used the stairs, down to what was likely a fire exit.
Was what fog said untrue?
Hint:
How many murders happened in Atlanta in the past year? How many got this much enforcement attention?
Hint 2:
Were there this many cops out looking for the Atlanta serial child murderer a few years back?
You've got it about right. A similar case ... I have absolutely no sympathy for O.J. Simpson, who brutally murdered two people. He was paying a court-ordered $24,000 in alimony per month, as well as giving up his Brentwood home to his ex-wife. Nothing excuses multiple murder, but the same messed-up legal system that let him off had originally imposed an absurdly unjust divorce settlement.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.