NBC 5 and CBS 11 obtained recordings of radio communications between one officer and dispatchers. In it, the officer reported “shots fired” and requested an ambulance.
A dispatcher asked the officer his location, and he responded, “409 Havenwood.”
The officer described what happened. “I don’t know who the guy is,” he said. “The guy came out with a gun. He wouldn’t put the gun down. He pointed it at Hoeppner. Hoeppner fired.”
Becky Haskin, a former Fort Worth City Council member who lives two doors from the Wallers, said when the alarm went off inside the house at 409 Havenwood, the security company called another neighbor when no one answered at the house with the alarm.
That neighbor told the security company to call police because she was concerned about the well-being of the resident, who is in poor health.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/05/30/4892910/family-says-man-killed-by-fort.html#storylink=cpy
While it won’t bring back the victim, we need to see the Police Retirement fund paying the entire settlement that the victim’s family will inevitably receive, and not the taxpayers. When police start losing their generous pensions because of the actions of idiots on the force, it might start to change attitudes of the boys in blue.
The public needs to decide how these officers and case should be handled, not the local chief or DA. When citizens who pay taxes for the force decide how incompetence or abuse should be treated, the force will start respecting the public. Not until then.