20 year old WI off-duty deputy shoots 6

Liberty · #16

Its hard sometimes telling the good guys from the bad guys. Sometimes the cops are the bad guys. Some times the tattooed, spikey haired guy with piercings is the good guy. Hard to tell these days.

I remember when the good guys all had white horses. Much simpler then.

longtooth · #17

Yes, & the good guys that rode white horses wore masks to.

Confusing no matter if you are as old as us or young as the ones we are teaching.

Venus Pax · #18

This is so sad. We need to keep these families and their friends in our prayers.

Commander · #19

longtooth wrote:
NguyenVanDon wrote:How is a 20 yrs old even allowed to possess a handgun and qualify to become a LEO at that age?!?! Am I'm missing something here???

RIP to the victims and their family. Prayers goes out to them...
Every stated sets their own ages for gun ownership & LE employment.
Evidently WI is less than 21 as it is in Texas.
Outside possibility the paper got it wrong too.

Back in the mid 70s my younger brother was hired as a police officer back in our home town here in Texas. He was 20 years old; bought his duty weapon from another officer and relied on me to buy his ammo.

Mithras61 · #20

Well, it turns out that the "provocation" that brought on the shooting was some name calling ("worthless pig" was the specific appelation), and it was a "police-style AR-15" (whatever that is - maybe to differentiate it from the "terrorist style AR-15" in their usual stories?).

Anyhoo, here's the CNN Update to this story...

Paladin · #21

Mithras61 wrote:...it was a "police-style AR-15" (whatever that is - maybe to differentiate it from the "terrorist style AR-15" in their usual stories?).

Exactly... identical equipment gets an entirely different name depending on who uses it...

ELB · #22

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/10/wiscon ... index.html

Kegley owns a construction and roofing company housed on his property. Three of his workers were at the house, and as Peterson [the deputy/shooter] lingered, they called 911 "as many as 20 times," Kegley said.

Sometime around 10:30 a.m. when there was still no apparent sign of police, Mike Kegley left the house to "find out where the hell they were," he said.

THAT caught my eye. If I read between the lines of the rest of the article, the police responded and surrounded the place at some distance, but never approached during a 6.5 hour period. At one point Peterson went the sleep for 45 minutes, and the people left in the house called the police and told them, but no one approached, and Peterson only woke up when the district attorney decided to call him.

Luckily, in the end, Peterson decided to let Kegley's family and workers live (unlike his girlfriend and her friends).

Excellent case study for why you should have your own guns AND be WILLING to make your own tough decisions as to your welfare and survival. In the end, you are the only one responsible for your safety.

elb

AEA · #23

What gets me about this is.......

If he was distraught enough to kill 6 people how in the world could he "go to sleep" afterwards?

#24

An update on CNN today (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/10/wiscon ... index.html) indicates that Peterson was not killed by sniper fire as originally reported. "... [Peterson] apparently died after shooting himself three times in the head with a .40-caliber pistol, the state attorney general said."

I'm rather glad it wasn't easy for him but, moreover, this is another example of the myth of the handgun one-shot stop.

AEA · #25

Well,....two chin shots and one head shot. I can kinda figure which one of the 3 did the job........

frankie_the_yankee · #26

Skiprr wrote:An update on CNN today (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/10/wiscon ... index.html) indicates that Peterson was not killed by sniper fire as originally reported. "... [Peterson] apparently died after shooting himself three times in the head with a .40-caliber pistol, the state attorney general said."

I'm rather glad it wasn't easy for him but, moreover, this is another example of the myth of the handgun one-shot stop.

Shot himself three times in the head? I hadn't heard of anyone doing that since Abu Nidal committed "suicide" in Baghdad a few years back.

KBCraig · #27

frankie_the_yankee wrote:
Skiprr wrote:An update on CNN today (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/10/wiscon ... index.html) indicates that Peterson was not killed by sniper fire as originally reported. "... [Peterson] apparently died after shooting himself three times in the head with a .40-caliber pistol, the state attorney general said."

I'm rather glad it wasn't easy for him but, moreover, this is another example of the myth of the handgun one-shot stop.
Shot himself three times in the head? I hadn't heard of anyone doing that since Abu Nidal committed "suicide" in Baghdad a few years back.

Welcome to Texas, where such things aren't unheard of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Sol_Estes