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Police: Michigan shootings suspect commits suicide
AP/WorldMag ^ | Jul 7, 11:51 PM EDT | TOM COYNE

Posted on 07/07/2011 9:10:26 PM PDT by quantim

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) -- Grand Rapids Police Chief Kevin Belk says the man suspected in seven Michigan shooting deaths has killed himself and two hostages he was holding are safe.

Belk said 34-year-old Rodrick Shonte Dantzler fatally shot himself inside a Grand Rapids home where here had been holding the hostages Thursday night.

Dantzler had released a 53-year-old female hostage unharmed earlier in the evening. Two other hostages had remained in the home.

A manhunt for Dantzler began after four people were found dead in one Grand Rapids home and three were found in another across town. Belk says the dead included two children.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: dantzler; grandrapids; michigan; shooting; suicide
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Would have preferred suicide by cop.
1 posted on 07/07/2011 9:10:30 PM PDT by quantim
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To: quantim

Too bad he couldn’t have offed himself before he went on this inhuman rampage.


2 posted on 07/07/2011 9:13:07 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (Democrats: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.")
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To: quantim

For the LEOs’ sake, I’m glad it wasn’t sui by cop.


3 posted on 07/07/2011 9:17:30 PM PDT by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: quantim

Well at least he will not be able to do it again.


4 posted on 07/07/2011 9:19:32 PM PDT by funfan
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To: quantim

Someone notify the Mexican consulate before we’re all in hot water.


5 posted on 07/07/2011 9:19:57 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: FourPeas

Agreed. Paperwork inhales with much velocity. Hostages safe. Trash removed. Money saved.


6 posted on 07/07/2011 9:20:15 PM PDT by Peter from Rutland
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To: quantim

Shonte sounds like one of them right-wing Amish Teabagger names!

/sarc


7 posted on 07/07/2011 9:21:12 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: FourPeas

Why is that? What sort of moral code do police follow that makes it ok to shoot people in their beds at 3AM, who are suspected of having a baggie of white powder, but not ok to shoot people who have murdered seven, including two children, and are presently holding two others hostage?


8 posted on 07/07/2011 9:22:23 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: quantim

Many of us were listening to the event live on the scanner after learning about the scanner link in the two FR threads.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2745338/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2745316/posts


9 posted on 07/07/2011 9:23:28 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: quantim

No dogs killed by entry team —great!


10 posted on 07/07/2011 9:24:00 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: quantim

How do you murder children in cold blood?

#askobama


11 posted on 07/07/2011 9:24:00 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: coloradan

Dan, I’m as down on SWAT raids gone bad as anyone. But I just got done listening to about an hour and a half’s worth of very professional, very dangerous police work on the scanner. I’m talking you could hear the hushed voices of the officers outside the bedroom in the hallway, talking to their command post incident commander. And I have to tell you, this isn’t the time to be talking smack about police. These guys clank when they walk. Officers 1202 and 1204 in particular.


12 posted on 07/07/2011 9:29:55 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: quantim

Is ‘Shonte’ pronounced with an inflection?


13 posted on 07/07/2011 9:29:57 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Mr. Weiner...Don' t Tweet your meat. It's too late to delete!)
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To: gaijin

See my previous post - this isn’t the time for that crap.


14 posted on 07/07/2011 9:30:41 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: quantim

Apparently, the deaths of children is not a concern of the Failure’s, lest he would not have approved the gun running operation for Mexico’s drug kingpins.


15 posted on 07/07/2011 9:34:01 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("One day he just washed up on the shores of his regrets. May his soul rest in peace." Al Stewart)
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To: quantim

The main thing is, the animal is dead.
Instant closure.
Prayers for the families of the victims.


16 posted on 07/07/2011 9:37:08 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

“Shonte”, very classy, very classy.

Good grief. My husband and I often laugh at these absurd grandiose names and I wonder if the mothers of these fatherless children are drunk or high when they name their doomed children. The democrat welfare state has reduced the once strong black family to the sad reality we see in the headlines everyday.

I hope someday, we will have elected officials strong enough to stop rewarding women for having multiple fatherless children whom they give elaborate names for their sad short and violent lives. Human beings deserve better than a feral exisitance. Democrats disagree of course.


17 posted on 07/07/2011 9:39:14 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty (PALIN 45 The cure for "meet the new boss, same as the old boss.")
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To: quantim

Who besides the madman is responsible for the carnage this time? No speculation yet by the LSM?


18 posted on 07/07/2011 9:41:40 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("One day he just washed up on the shores of his regrets. May his soul rest in peace." Al Stewart)
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To: TheConservativeParty

Very well said. Economical, not a word wasted. Please write speeches for the good guys.


19 posted on 07/07/2011 9:46:24 PM PDT by LifePath
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To: TheConservativeParty

I agree. It’s SICK how these communities have been exploited. The people who have gone before them and fought for equal rights. *shakes head*


20 posted on 07/07/2011 9:46:55 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Mr. Weiner...Don' t Tweet your meat. It's too late to delete!)
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