Posted on 04/30/2015 1:08:43 AM PDT by lowbridge
Prosecutors said a 24-year-old police woman was stabbed a total of 14 times by a man who allegedly told investigators he was out to kill the police officer because "cops are oppressive."
Houston homicide investigators said Jeremiah M. Matthews, 23, tried to kill an off-duty Houston Community College Officer Aprils Pikes early Tuesday morning while she was working as a security guard at a Meyerland Walmart store.
During a magistrate's hearing Tuesday night, prosecutors said, "The defendant gave a statement admitting he had the intent to attack a police officer and his desire to kill a police officer.”
Investigators at the scene said Matthews told them he did it to get back at police for what he calls brutal treatment. But customers helped stop the brutal attack.
According to witnesses, Matthews came into the store, tackled Pikes and began stabbing her with a hunting knife.
"I saw him on her just stabbing her," said witness Abe Baker, who was one of several shoppers who intervened to stop the attack.
Baker said he was leaving the Walmart in the 9500 block of South Post Oak when he saw Matthews attack the officer.
"I wasn't really thinking," Baker said. "His arm was just up getting ready to stab her and I just grabbed his arm and took him down, and that's when everybody else came over and we all just took him down."
(Excerpt) Read more at click2houston.com ...
I can see how poor Jeremiah got confused. He thought it was a Baltimore Meyerland Walmart.
Its not the police officers but politicians who voted for all those oppressive laws
The man was just acting upon the genetic memory of centuries of white oppression (haven't seen any pictures, but assuming he looks like the son Obama never had).
What unstable? there’s tens of thousands dying to do the same thing across the country. I’m sick of it. Notice how no riots happened on Staten Island after fatso died. Because the cops would have been the LEAST of the rioters’ problems. Trust me.
You have assumed correctly, Grasshopper. :0) Picture at link.
Weighcist. ;)
yeah I’ve been bad all night lol. insomnia, plus thinking back to 9/11 seeing the plane hit, now seeing 100’s of mosques in America, and these animals rioting in new York, I’m on a tare lol. should be kicked off by 8am. hope not.
Wal-Mart has security guards? Is this a high crime area? No security guards at the local WM.
Probably a hero among his peers now, though.
“I wonder what influence ISIS has on the riots and attacks such as this.”
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I don’t know, but perhaps we should ask “community activist” Deric Muhammad who is serving as the perp’s family’s spokesperson.
I once heard of a person who stabbed her spouse 113 times. When asked by police why, she replied that she couldn’t figure out how to shut off the electric carving knife.
cheers
Jim
How brave to attack an off-duty COMMUNITY COLLEGE officer at her Wal-mart security guard job where he knew she would be UNARMED! Coward.
Thanks goodness there were some good folks, who happen to be Black, that kept the Thug from killing the cop.
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