Posted on 12/20/2007 6:59:40 AM PST by somfphite
Police Officer Shot And Killed In Western Maryland Thursday, December 20, 2007 - WBAL Radio
Smithsburg Police Chief Charles R. Stanford says a department officer was shot and killed Wednesday night. A suspect in the shooting has been hospitalized.
Officer Christopher Nicholson was shot about 10 p.m. while in the area of Welty Church Road, police say. Broadcast reports say the officer had been responding to some kind of domestic call when he was shot. He was pronounced dead at Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown.
See video from the investigation courtesy WHAG TV in Hagerstown
Hagerstown Police Sergeant Paul Kifer says a suspect was taken into custody at 11:40 p.m. in the 14400 block of Misty Meadow Road.
Washington County Sheriff Douglas Mullendore said the suspect was taken to the same hospital where the officer had been prounded dead.
Nicholson was sworn in as Smithsburg's third police officer on July 11, 2006. The former correctional officer graduated from the Western Maryland Police Academy in June 2006.
WBAL Radio
Domestic call. Bad news.
Prays for the family.
Damn! Just Damn! Prayers for his family and colleagues.
Mohammed?
Small town Police Officer shot dead responding to a domestic dispute.
Tell us again that being a cop is less dangerous than being a retail clerk.
Eh. I'd rather be a Smithsburg cop than a clerk at a Smithsburg convenience store. At least as a cop you're allowed to be armed. Neither job is particularly safe, but that's what cops sign up for. The same really can't be said of the retail clerk.
Absolutely.
You live in the area?
No. But the thoughts are still with the family.
Fry this punk!!!
prayers for the Nicholson family
Don't joke about serious topics
Md. Governor O’Malley (D) said his hope is that Md. can be the next state to repeal the death penalty, after NJ. No one has been put to death since Gov. Erlich (R)was in office. I long for the good old days!! Erlich may run again next time. He has a call in radio show and people, mostly city blacks call and say they just voted for O’Malley to send Bush a message about Iraq. What does a Governor have to do with Iraq? They don’t like Iraq so they voted to raise my taxes and to let murderers live life! What a state!!
Not so much chance of that in 'Western' Maryland.
I refer you to post 13 concerning Marylands death penalty status...
Maryland executes Steven Oken after US Supreme Court lifts last-minute stay of execution imposed and upheld by Federal District and Circuit Courts, respectively, and Governor Ehrlich refuses clemency,
It was the one and only, the courts halt all others.
For anyone who isn’t familiar with northern New Jersey, Rutherford isn’t exactly a sprawling metropolis. A police officer in that town has a job that is no more dangerous than that of a typical retail clerk.
Now let's go and do some research on the subject using Bureau of Labor statistics for 2006. According to Table A-5 (Fatal Occupational Injuries by Occupation and Event/Exposure), there were 130 deaths among law enforcement personnel last year -- including 110 police officers (the rest were court officers, wardens, criminal investogators, etc.).
During the same time period there were 78 deaths among food service workers and 308 among sales/service workers.
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