I have to wonder if it had to end this way...jerry_r60 wrote:This article had a little more info:
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"Pauline Lewis, who lived with Mr Isadore and accompanied his daughter on Saturday when she asked him to consider moving to an apartment, said he became increasingly confused and irate and began brandishing a hand gun."
Sounds to me like one of the difficult life situations. The daughter needed to have a talk with him about needing to move and he wouldn't have it. Given it was his daughter, his age and the fact that she was thinking he needed to move, I suspect his mind wasn't quite so sharp anymore.
Sounds like a sad situation. Too bad it had to end this way.
He was locked in a room alone. They had to shoot him to protect him from shooting himself?
He was 107. I doubt he was going to make a break for it and out run them.
I understand returning fire was legal. But just like I tell my students, what's legal isn't always what's right.
It would have been different if he were advancing on the police. And maybe that's what happened. I wasn't there.
But from what little has been reported, I can't help but feel it could/should have played out much differently if they (SWAT) had been more patient or not been called at all.
Why is SWAT the answer for most problems anymore? Is it the old "If I have a hammer, every problem is a nail" situation?
I'm usually very pro LEO. Especially with the department involved in this. They were a client of mine back when I was in the Emergency Services software biz. I've spent a lot of time there. I have lots of friends in the area. I just feel someone got in a rush to go home.