Posted on 03/31/2013 6:56:34 PM PDT by Ken H
BALTIMORE (WJZ)—A 24-year-old Navy veteran is in intensive care after being shot by city police Thursday night. His family tells WJZ that he was testing out a shotgun after being the victim of a home invasion.
Mike Schuh spoke exclusively to the man’s father.
Police say officers responded to reports of shots fired Thursday night outside a home in the 8700-block of Danville Avenue.
“They went to the rear of the location to investigate. They encountered an individual that was armed with a shotgun. During the course of that encounter, one of our officers discharged, striking the suspect,” said Sgt. Eric Kowalczyk, police spokesman.
Shot above his heart was 24-year-old Navy veteran Nick Romano. The police bullet exited his back. His spleen was removed at the hospital.
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Maybe he had his body charged up from contact with his taser.
Teddy (Bear)?
Is it legal to discharge a firearm in the city limits there?
““Your spleen is above your heart?”
My thoughts exactly. Either the bullet entered below the heart or the reporter is stupid!”
Or the victim was on the ground and the bullet went “down” into the torso, entering above the heart, going under the sternum, and puncturing the spleen, on the left side under the ribcage. If cop and victim were both upright no way.
duh - I realized that as I hit the ‘post’ button. Writing is difficult. LOL Maybe I should cut the reporter some slack.
ass reporting. spleen is not above the heart.
guess getting it right is not a priority anymore.
another reason for everyone being able to have silencers.
Patients is often key in getting to the true cause what is wrong.
I am not betting against you.
So true. And thank goodness they took the time to consider things by removing the spleen. He could be a double amputee now.
Perhaps the cop peed his pants while firing his service pistol, and thus both the cop and the gun discharged?
Hard to tell from the terrible writing from one of our modern journalists.
Patients is often key in getting to the true cause what is wrong.
Classic!
Presumably, that reporter has an editor. You don’t, other than yourself, and you caught your error more or less immediately.
I give you a pass.
Another “Magic Bullet!” Your help is needed with the ongoing forensics in connection with the Kennedy Assassination!
The article does not make it clear whether or not Mr. Romano’s shotgun practice in his yard was legal or illegal. His father is quoted as saying he “shouldn’t have been doing that” - which, in retrospect, is obvious. But it doesn’t answer the key question.
And the Official Reality is that the Magic Bullet was buried with Connely and never examined.
I thought he must have been laying down when he was shot.
Understandable the charged up cop "discharged". Hope he had a clean set of skivvies back at the cop shop.
My guess is the first shot(s) missed and he was ducking and running when he got hit.
To #39: I know how the reporter wrote that he was shot in the spleen above the heart.
The victim was standing on his head, trying to fire his shotgun, when the police shot him in the spleen, which was then above his heart (i.e. upside down to its true position). I’m not sure if they teach anatomy to reporters anymore.
Baltimore used to have crime beat reporters. Today the Sun and whatever else is left, have “’porters”, just like a man with a wrench and a plunger is called a “plungger”.
I stopped writing for Baltimore papers many decades ago. The good ones had disappeared and the “Sun” had already set in the West regarding being anything of journalistic worth.
Just hope the vet recovers to good health.
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