Posted on 05/07/2008 3:16:07 PM PDT by RDTF
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Bailiffs shot and killed a man who opened fire in the lobby of a downtown courthouse Wednesday afternoon, sheriff's officials said.
One of the two bailiffs who fired at the unidentified man suffered a non-life-threatening shoulder wound, Pinellas County Sheriff's Sgt. Jim Bordner said. At least four other people were in the lobby at the time but no one else was hurt, Bordner said.
The gunman entered the courthouse shortly after 1 p.m. Wednesday and approached a security checkpoint wearing a backpack. A deputy ordered him to remove the backpack and place it on a conveyor belt, but the man instead threw it on the ground and opened fire with a semiautomatic handgun, Bordner said.
Deputies B.J. Lyons and Marvin Glover returned fire, fatally wounding the man, who died later at a St. Petersburg hospital. Lyons, 58, who suffered the shoulder wound, was released from the hospital by late afternoon.
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Suicide by cop or a really bad shot.
No, it is fortunate there were armed deputies willing and able to save lives.
Although the office I work in is about 20 blocks from the Courthouse, we were in “lockdown” for about an hour.
My bet is on the suicide...
Most likely that close up.
Now that's a BIG prison.
*A deputy ordered him to remove the backpack and place it on a conveyor belt, but the man instead threw it on the ground and opened fire with a semiautomatic handgun, *
“My son’s brains are lying all over the courthouse floor over a backpack!”
They sure resolved his issues.
It’s a shame these damned out of control cops couldn’t have tased him or at least wounded the poor guy (sar off)...
Yeah. Right. Go find a cop hater thread to post that.
Ummmmm....that’s why I put the “sarcasm off” tag on the post-—it was a joke, making fun of the Po-po haters on the board.....
wouldn’t that have been sarc on?
More appropriately, “sarcasm on” and “sarcasm off”....
Nope, he followed normal “sarc” protocol. I’m afraid you owe the apology, FRiend.
Ok - if that’s the case I’ll take your word for it. My apologies. Thought the sarcasm on and off was done the opposite way.
Coincidentally, I entered a Florida courthouse the other day and the security guys were rent-a-cops. There was an armed deputy inside with a clear field of fire to the screening area, albeit with those waiting line as the "berm." We would have been screwed if that incident happened here.
If I was a judge in St. Pete I know who I’d want for my baliff.
LOL yep
Ping
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