Posted on 06/15/2008 4:48:09 PM PDT by driftdiver
A young Turlock man parked a pickup truck on a dark country road outside his Central Valley city Saturday night, removed a baby boy from a car seat and then viciously beat the child in the street, fighting off passersby who tried to stop him until he was fatally shot by a police officer whose helicopter landed in a nearby pasture, police said today.
The 27-year-old suspect died immediately where he fell. The child, who according to police appeared to be 12 to 24 months old, was rushed to a hospital but was soon pronounced dead as well.
Police officials declined to identify the man this morning and said they did not yet know who the child was - or what his relationship was to his attacker. No information was immediately available about the baby's mother.
The suspect "had tunnel vision," said Stanislaus County sheriff's deputy Royjindar Singh, a department spokesman. "As people tried to intervene, to tackle him, he just went back to what he was doing. Anything and everything he could do to the baby, that's what he was doing."
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The world has gone insane.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
A baseball bat to the head would have stopped him.
Horrible...Thank God the child went right to the Arms of the Lord.
Saving the taxpayers a lot of $$.
Had a armed citizen been on the scene, chances are good that the poor child would be alive right now.
And the scumbag right into the claws of the devil (i hope).
or a .45acp legally carried or not. In situations like this the law be damned
I feel the same way.
He had to have been on something to have done that.
unquestionably.
That reminds me. Time to say a Rosary.
*sniff* I love happy endings.
A good shoe strike to the temple probably would have sufficed. But it’s Kalifornia! Nobody wanted to hurt him! Me? I woulda kicked him in the throat!
Evil. May the baby rest in peace.
No happy ending for the baby.
I know what you mean! I would have done worse....but then again...I might have been in the hospital too!
He was “on” evil.
God help us.
Or, if none was available, a car jack or tire iron would do just fine as well.
This was reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, but this outrage didn’t happen there.
Turlock is an agricultural community in the “Central Valley,” generally a more conservative area of California.
I believe the “Central Valley” is the San Joaquin Valley and the Sacramento Valley combined.
Still, the over-reaching gun laws passed in California’s capital, Sacramento, affect the entire state in a negative way.
It's a shame he wasn't gut shot serious enough to bleed out before medical help could come. And in a whole bunch of pain. May there be a special place in Hell for that mutt.
See 17
DU`ers are condemning the police officer and are suggesting the guy who killed the baby is an Iraq veteran.
The suspect had tunnel vision?
I’d say he had pure evil vision.
May God rest the bambinos soul.
Can someone explain to their best knowledge the biblical meaning of God is going to lift the Holy Spirit from this world?
My question is: Will the Holy Spirit leave over time or all at once?
This man who felt so much hate to kill a child will have some splainin’ to do when shown the door to eternal hell he better hope Gods forgiving love is on his side now.
Not a happy ending at all. Small comfort.
Well that is a very predictable response.
If true, sounds like he may have been on the wrong side.
Looking at the timeline it probably went pretty fast. I commend the folks for trying to stop him.
Evil like this is out there and the police can’t protect us. Guns should not be illegal in CA.
You obviously don't know where Turlock is. It's in the San Joaquin Valley, south of Modesto.
May God have the child close to His bosom.
The FR cop-haters don't seem to have found this thread yet. Perhaps they are all over at DU at the moment.
I'll be thinking about this poor baby and wondering who he belonged to for a long time. God rest his little soul.
No, probably the baby was crying and disturbing his macho almighty peace and he was having to babysit while the baby mama worked. and he couldn’t go out drinking and drugging with his boys and so he just lost his cool.
13 months ago, he wasn’t a baby and It wouldn’t have been a crime.
There isn’t any place I know of in scripture that says specifically that the Holy Spirit will be lifted out of this world. There is scripture to the effect that he who now lets will let until he is taken out of the way. A lot of people think the “he” that is mentioned in this scripture is the Holy Spirit and that the rapture (also not specifically named in scripture) will be the result of believers in Christ being removed from the world at some future date and, thus, the Holy Spirit in those believers will go with them. (I’m not saying that’s right, just that it is the belief of some.)
Bad things can and do happen anywhere nowadays. We see that daily.
Of course this this particular crime occurred in California, on a dusty, rural road, lined by crops. But hey, it's a great opportunity for some to attack the entire state, and point fingers at everyone except the dead child killer.
Unfortunately the Central Valley is home to a lot of meth labs and is on the main drug smuggling line from Mexico to points north and east. I personally suspect meth because the labs are frequently in those out-of-the-way places like this nightmare happened. (OTOH, a few years ago my upper middle-class exurban neighbor in our town just forty miles north of Turlock was arrested for running a meth lab out of her garage.)
“The FR cop-haters don’t seem to have found this thread yet. Perhaps they are all over at DU at the moment. “
Perhaps you joined FR from DU? Cops carry guns for instances just like this. Comparing this instance to one where the cops enter the wrong house and kill someone (for example) is pathetic.
I’m figuring that what he’d done until his untimely death (not soon enough) already killed the baby, so the end was him dying.
Sad for the baby though, agree with others that a CCW among the bystanders would have saved the day.
“13 months ago, he wasn’t a baby and It wouldn’t have been a crime.”
It would still have been a crime, just not against the law.
yes...and shedding tears right now at the horrible story.
That’s about it isn’t it? Sad and we can do nothing.
How about a brick?
How about breaking a window and using the glass shards to stop him?
How about a shoe, a rock, stones, hair spray, bug spray. Anything to get him off that baby.
I hate him. I hate people like him. I hope he burns in hell. I hope he burns and burns and burns and burns and burns. If only we could bring the baby back and begin over with the baby being raised with people who love him and would protect him. We can’t and so the only consolation is the baby is in the arms of the Lord and will forever be happy. However, who was there to take away the pain and suffering this little child endured? It breaks your heart.
I’m glad he was shot. However that was too quick for him. I know I should not say that but I say it and I mean it. Nothing I say could EVER compare to the evil that that devil had inside him.
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