On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Gruss Gott <grussg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > A trend? > ------ > > On Sunday, lawmen still were investigating why Joshua Cartwright, a > 28-year-old U.S. Army Reserve soldier with a history of violence, > killed Okaloosa County sheriff's deputies Burt Lopez and Warren "Skip" > York at a gun range in Crestview. > > An offense report filed against Cartwright the day he died outlines an > angry husband who threatened his wife, kept guns and knives on hand, > was "severely disturbed" that Barack Obama had been elected president, > and believed the U.S. government was conspiring against him. > > According to the report, events spun out of control Saturday morning. > > On Friday, Elizabeth told lawmen, Cartwright was laid off from his job > at a telephone store. He also had worked as a bouncer at a bar at one > point, and weighed about 220 pounds. > > About 9:30 a.m. Saturday, a frustrated Cartwright woke up Elizabeth ... > > Elizabeth drove herself to the emergency room at Fort Walton Beach > Medical Center and called 911. Then deputies began looking for > Cartwright to make an arrest. They wanted to arrest him for wakign up his wife? Please tell me there were some important details that got chopped out. > They learned he'd planned to go with friends to the Shoal River Gun > Club in Crestview, a shooting range. > > Deputies Lopez and York found Cartwright in the parking lot there, > according to the Sheriff's Office. They intended to arrest him on a > misdemeanor charge of domestic battery. > > "They approached him, he was uncooperative, they utilized the Taser, > and he went down to the ground," Spooner said Sunday. "He came up > firing with a gun nobody saw. He probably had it concealed somewhere." > > "To show you how aggressive he was, he was shooting at York. After he > shot him, he didn't even turn around," Spooner said. "He just started > firing over his head." > > Both deputies suffered multiple wounds in areas not covered by their > bulletproof vests, Spooner said. > > Cartwright's death minutes later came as he began firing at lawmen in > Walton County, where patrol cars rammed his truck, flipping it on its > roof > sadly, someone will probably sue the police department for that...and win. -- Scott Stroz --------------- The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson http://xkcd.com/386/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:296252 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
