Oklahoma City police identify motel shoot-out victim

News OK ^ | October 11, 2014

[george76]

Oklahoma City police Friday identified all five people involved in a fatal motel shoot-out Wednesday, including the woman fatally shot during an exchange of gunfire... The woman who was fatally shot near the Plaza Inn motel was identified Friday as Samantha Rae Monden, 30, of Lexington.

Monden’s father, Sam Robinson, of Lexington, said his daughter leaves behind two children, a 5-year-old son and a 4-year-old daughter, and her husband, Isaac. The husband was too grief-stricken to talk Friday, Robinson said.

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Narcotics were located

[george76]

Police arrested 39-year-old Shane Leon Rhea on suspicion of first-degree murder, kidnapping .. Rhea has a long criminal history ; he was released from an Oklahoma prison in June.

http://www.koco.com/news/oklahoma-city-police-release-name-of-woman-shot-killed-wednesday-evening/29055302

[ClearCase_guy]

Rhea shot Monden when he was confronted by police, they said. Rhea was hit by gunfire from a rifle fired by another Oklahoma City police officer.

I'll ask the stupid question: Do we know with 100% certainty that the bad guy Rhea was the one who killed innocent mother of two Monden? Because I see the possibility of another scenario.

The article also mentioned that Monden will be cremated, which I found to be a somewhat odd detail.

[Celtic Conservative]

Are you thinking it was friendly fire?

CC

[george76]

Her father also talked about his 30 year old daughter’s failure to launch = still living at her parents’ home until three weeks ago... when he threw her out for disrespecting / swearing , etc.

Do not know her back story . Drugs , lack of educational / employable skills, etc.

[ClearCase_guy]

I know on TV shows, the cops always withhold fire very carefully. On TV, the cops never act too early and cause things to get out of hand. Often, on TV, a police sniper will take out the bad guy while he holds a gun to the head of his intended victim.

In real life? A hail of bullets can take down both the bad guy and his intended victim in the same instant. Which is embarrassing. Unless the story ends up being told just right.

[Gamecock]

Too bad for the kids.

Were the deceased related to our dear leader?

[arthurus]

I suspect there will be no autopsy to determine whose gun fired the bullets. The bad guy shooting the shield is not the norm for such situations.

[arthurus]

Police fire is not to be considered automatically as “friendly fire.” It could be.

[arthurus]

No. None were Moslem.

[Hieronymus]

One of Murphy’s Rules of Combat Ops is that the only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.
http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-war.html