U.S. cop on shooting rampage kills 5
DOVER TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A veteran police officer remained on the loose early today after he allegedly gunned down five of his neighbors, then drove to a nearby town and shot his boss.
Edward Lutes, a Seaside Heights police officer for 15 years, fled in a 1995 Buick Regal after the shootings and was believed to still be armed, said Dover Township Police Chief Michael Mastronardy.
The first shootings occurred late Tuesday in Lutes' neighborhood in Dover Township, a New Jersey shore community that is still reeling from a February rampage in which a retired police officer allegedly killed four people.
The five slain neighbours included two people who were next door and three who were in a house across the street.
Lutes later went to nearby Barnegat Township and shot Seaside Heights Police Chief James Costello, Mastronardy said. He was hospitalized in stable condition at Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune.
Another person was injured and taken to Community Medical Center in Toms River. It was not immediately known where the victim was at the time of the shooting.
Mastronardy and Assistant Ocean County Prosecutor Gregory Sakowicz could not give a motive for the shootings.
When asked if Lutes might be going after other targets, Mastronardy said all precautions have been taken for anyone who could be threatened.
Doug Mayday, 37, who also lives in Lutes' neighborhood, said he was driving when a police officer in riot gear ran out of bushes and waved him through. He also saw police with rifles drawn in the vicinity of the shooting.
The initial shootings happened about a mile from the street where John E. Mabie allegedly killed his granddaughter and three neighbors on Feb. 21 as he went from house to house shooting a .39-caliber revolver.
"It's just a sad time for the community," Mastronardy said.
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Let's talk Gun Control...
Amendment II
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
Conservative right-wingers love strict interpretations of their beloved Constitution, but they always ignore the words "Regulated militia" and they fail to put into context what the founding fathers meant when they created such a law.
It seems that the US was revolutionary in 1776, but since then they are just regurgitating past ideals into their ever growing nation. Instead of seeking what they (the founding fathers) sought they are merely living in past conventions.
Also, US gun culture can never understand the logic of making all hand guns illegal. Being, everyone gains the right of safety; by taking away (essential??) the right to ownership of assault weapons....
Besides how can you call a society enlightened or even civilized when there is a gun for every man, women, and child in your country?
But I guess that's the beauty of living in a social-darwin's capitalist nightmare
DOVER TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A veteran police officer remained on the loose early today after he allegedly gunned down five of his neighbors, then drove to a nearby town and shot his boss.
Edward Lutes, a Seaside Heights police officer for 15 years, fled in a 1995 Buick Regal after the shootings and was believed to still be armed, said Dover Township Police Chief Michael Mastronardy.
The first shootings occurred late Tuesday in Lutes' neighborhood in Dover Township, a New Jersey shore community that is still reeling from a February rampage in which a retired police officer allegedly killed four people.
The five slain neighbours included two people who were next door and three who were in a house across the street.
Lutes later went to nearby Barnegat Township and shot Seaside Heights Police Chief James Costello, Mastronardy said. He was hospitalized in stable condition at Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune.
Another person was injured and taken to Community Medical Center in Toms River. It was not immediately known where the victim was at the time of the shooting.
Mastronardy and Assistant Ocean County Prosecutor Gregory Sakowicz could not give a motive for the shootings.
When asked if Lutes might be going after other targets, Mastronardy said all precautions have been taken for anyone who could be threatened.
Doug Mayday, 37, who also lives in Lutes' neighborhood, said he was driving when a police officer in riot gear ran out of bushes and waved him through. He also saw police with rifles drawn in the vicinity of the shooting.
The initial shootings happened about a mile from the street where John E. Mabie allegedly killed his granddaughter and three neighbors on Feb. 21 as he went from house to house shooting a .39-caliber revolver.
"It's just a sad time for the community," Mastronardy said.
Link
Let's talk Gun Control...
Amendment II
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
Conservative right-wingers love strict interpretations of their beloved Constitution, but they always ignore the words "Regulated militia" and they fail to put into context what the founding fathers meant when they created such a law.
It seems that the US was revolutionary in 1776, but since then they are just regurgitating past ideals into their ever growing nation. Instead of seeking what they (the founding fathers) sought they are merely living in past conventions.
Also, US gun culture can never understand the logic of making all hand guns illegal. Being, everyone gains the right of safety; by taking away (essential??) the right to ownership of assault weapons....
Besides how can you call a society enlightened or even civilized when there is a gun for every man, women, and child in your country?
But I guess that's the beauty of living in a social-darwin's capitalist nightmare
