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2015-12-13 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Armed man shot inside Pennsylvania Walmart

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-12-13 05:44|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 As Robert Heinlein wrote: "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

It appears that the deceased individual forgot his manners.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2015-12-13 06:36|| 2015-12-13 06:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Other news sez the police shot him, once, when he refused to drop'em. Suicide by cop?

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-12-13 07:28|| 2015-12-13 07:28|| Front Page Top

#3 "An armed society is a polite society.

Except Afghanistan and Somalia also are armed societies, as are the 'hoods of our inner cities. Perhaps it should be modified to something like An armed, sane society is a polite society.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-12-13 09:23|| 2015-12-13 09:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Update:

Andrew Joseph Todd, 20, of Mount Bethel, armed with two handguns and a machete was shot and killed inside the East Stroudsburg Walmart on Saturday night, according to state police. Todd entered the Walmart, on Lincoln Avenue, at 10:11 p.m. and began threatening customers and pointing a gun at them, witnesses told state police.

Stroud Area Regional Police arrived minutes later and ordered Todd to drop his weapons. After he refused, SARP officers fired at the man, striking him in the upper chest. Police then did first aid on the man until EMS responded and took him to Pocono Medical Center where Monroe County Coroner Robert Allen pronounced him dead. State police said that no officers or customers were injured in the incident. At about 7:30 a.m. (EDT) Sunday, his name was released.

[Witnesses] described the man as a white male, about 5 feet 7 inches tall, wearing a black baseball hat, a black bandanna over his face and a black shirt and jeans, and a machete hanging off his belt.

Posted by Pappy 2015-12-13 09:38|| 2015-12-13 09:38|| Front Page Top

#5 After he refused, SARP officers fired at the man, striking him in the upper chest.

I suspect a visit from DoJ is in the offing.

[Witnesses] described the man as a white male

Oh, never mind.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-12-13 09:43|| 2015-12-13 09:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Clearly started his Christmas shopping too late.

Posted by Sloluth Protector of the Weak7539 2015-12-13 15:20|| 2015-12-13 15:20|| Front Page Top

#7 20-year-old white male. Another schizophrenic having his first psychotic break?

Posted by RandomJD 2015-12-13 15:43|| 2015-12-13 15:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Nut jobs and drug addicts, often a combination.
I like the way a lot of states do it. You can't plead an insanity defense if you show any signs of remorse or evidence of that you knew what you were doing was wrong. Here locally we've had a couple that tried insanity but the made the mistake of calling the cops after they did it. They are now serving very long sentences. Barely missed execution.

Posted by Chaith Oppressor of the Lutherans1517 2015-12-13 15:57|| 2015-12-13 15:57|| Front Page Top

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