shopper killed in walmart... smh.

[GT Fanatic]

imo The guy stood there long enough as if he was trying to get security's attention on camera or something. Unless it was a younger kid playing with a toy gun, waiting for his mommy? Still makes no sense why he sat it that same spot for so long.

[TeeShock]

The first shot fired from the rifle seemed a little too far away to determine if he was a real threat or not.

[orphan Shelby]

I have a BB gun I have to return to wal mart and I can't find package. MAybe ill call them ahead of time so no one gets wrong idea.

[SS Junk]

I have a BB gun I have to return to wal mart and I can't find package. MAybe ill call them ahead of time so no one gets wrong idea.

Don't wander around slinging it onto your shoulder like a dumb fuck and you should be right as rain

[SS Junk]

The girlfriend of John Crawford, the young man who was shot dead by police while holding a pellet gun and speaking on his cellphone in an Ohio supermarket last year, has been killed in a car crash.

Tasha Thomas died on New Year’s Day when the car she was travelling in struck a pole in Dayton at high speed and overturned, according to police. The driver, Frederick Bailey, died soon after at a hospital.

Thomas, who was 26, was shopping with Crawford at the Walmart in Beavercreek, a Dayton suburb, in August last year when Crawford was shot dead by a police officer. The officer was responding to a 911 call from a customer who said Crawford was pointing a gun at passersby.

Earlier this month the Guardian disclosed that Thomas was aggressively questioned by police after the shooting. A detective accused her of lying, threatened to send her to jail, and suggested that she was high on drugs, before telling her that Crawford, 22, was dead.

“It’s just tragic,” Michael Wright, the attorney for Crawford’s family, said on Friday of Thomas’s death. “It is a sad set of circumstances continuing from what happened at Walmart.” Wright, who advised Thomas soon after the shooting, said that her death had been confirmed to him by Anthony VanNoy, Thomas’s attorney. VanNoy could not be reached for comment.

An official in the Montgomery County coroner’s office confirmed that Thomas, who lived in Fairborn, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on North Broadway street at 3.06pm and that Bailey, 30, died at the emergency room about 22 minutes later. Police told ABC22 that the car was travelling at between 90 and 100mph.

Surveillance footage released after Crawford’s death showed he was shot after walking around the store with the pellet gun and occasionally swinging it at his side. The shooting was investigated by state officials and handled by a special prosecutor. A grand jury decided in September that the two police officers involved should not face criminal charges.

Crawford’s family earlier this month filed a civil lawsuit over Crawford’s death against the officers, the Beavercreek police department and its chief, and Walmart. All deny wrongdoing.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/girlfriend-of-john-crawford-man-killed-by-police-in-walmart-dies-in-car-crash/

[ceyko]

1. The guy handled that gun very poorly.
2. It seems the cops were a little trigger happy.

I used to get a little bothered by some stores essentially escorting you out after you purchased a gun. After seeing this, I think it needs to become the standard. Dude being irresponsible with what easily appears to be a gun, the caller got fuel on the fire (although, I did not hear anything really over the top in the call) and then the cops being very aggressive created a tough situation.

This folks is why we teach our kids how to handle guns, even toy guns at a young age.

[Wanderer]

Final Destination type shit right there.

[krazy kris]

The police= hit squad

[bubbaearl]

take a shoot don't shoot class then see if you still feel the same way.

[GT Fanatic]

This folks is why we teach our kids how to handle guns, even toy guns at a young age.

I remember when I was a kid. We played cops and robbers. My boy is six and I have to worry about him playing in the neighborhood with a toy gun. It's a good thing they have all these shooter games to play.

[BradM]

Final Destination type shit right there.

You son of a bitch! Stole the words right out of my mouth!

[ceyko]

I remember when I was a kid. We played cops and robbers. My boy is six and I have to worry about him playing in the neighborhood with a toy gun. It's a good thing they have all these shooter games to play.

Yeah I tend to let them play that way - but am always reminding them it's not proper. When I give them their airsoft rifles, they seem to remember the rules and such.

I live out a little rural, so everyone is not so panicky. However, it does seem like more and more yuppies are moving out further too though.

[GeorgeG.]

Am I the only one that thinks the cop that fired the shot should be charged with murder. They're suppose to be able to identify toy guns by more than packaging. It doesn't even look like they asked him to put it down first. They literally shot first and asked questions later.

[Gasser64]

In all seriousness, they can get this guy, but they can't handle the assholes from Open Carry Texas?

ever hear that story about authority being afraid of people with guns?