Neptune (NJ) cop charged with shooting, killing ex-wife in front of daughter

[KeepItReal]

Source: NJ.com

Phillip Seidle, 51, a 22-year veteran with the Neptune Township Police Department, was charged with murder in the shooting death of his ex-wife Tamara Seidle on Sewall Avenue, said First Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Marc LeMieux

Tamara Seidle crashed her Jetta into an unoccupied green Ford Focus, LeMieux said. At that time, LeMieux said, Phillip Seidle got out of his car, took out his .40- caliber Glock service handgun and fired "several" shots into Tamara's Seidle's car.

LeMieux said officers were able to talk Phillip Seidle into handing over the couple's daughter. Once the daughter was in police custody, Phillip Seidle then fired more shots at Tamara Seidle through her front windshield, he said.

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After looking at the object, he raised his arms over his head and walked out into the street to surrender, the witness said. The witness said police officers surrounded Seidle, who was "bawling his eyes out." While taking him into custody, some of the officers hugged him and patted him comfortingly on the back, the witness said.

Read more: http://www.nj.com/monmouth/index.ssf/2015/06/wife_shot_by_neptune_police_officer_dies.html#incart_2box_nj-homepage-featured

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More reporting:

One witness told Asbury Park Press that Seidle hit a police cruiser while running his wife’s car off the road.

“He clips the cop car and then drives into the back of the young girl’s car and then jumps out and starts shooting at her car,” the witness said. “The cop runs out but he doesn’t do anything, and the baby is in the car.”

Trina Poysner said that officers on the scene tried to convince Seidle to drop the weapon.

“Put the gun down,” she recalled them saying. “It’s not worth it.”

“My kids, my kids!” Seidle allegedly yelled back. “I’m not going to see them anymore.”

After an ambulance took the victim away, officers successfully convinced their colleague to surrender his weapon. The woman was taken to Jersey Shore University Medical Center. Her condition and the condition of the child were not known.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/n-j-cop-ran-ex-wife-off-the-road-shot-her-with-a-child-in-car-as-another-officer-watched-witness/

[still_one]

1. The story that came out this morning was that another cop witnessed what was happening, and did

nothing. If true, that policeman needs to be fired

[KeepItReal]

2. There's video of the actual shooting in the link. No cop there fires at the murderer.

It's a terrible video, but you can see the shooter and the police response.

Even with cops present, no police appear to or have been reported to have shot at the assailant.

[still_one]

3. I won't watch the video, but i hope the jerk never gets out of prison

[KeepItReal]

4. The cops should have put him down with his first volley into the car containing his wife and child

Instead, they stood by and let him fire at least one more salvo into that car.

Outrageous.

[still_one]

5. I absolutely concur

[ManiacJoe]

13. The cellphone video is useless.

The phone is pointed at the ground during the important parts.
Never mind that the action takes place too far away to be seen.

[KeepItReal]

14. More reporting: "Why didn't police use force in Neptune cop shooting?"

Why didn't police use force in Neptune cop shooting?

Tamara Seidle, 51, was shot multiple times Tuesday morning on Sewall Avenue after a short car chase through the streets of Asbury Park, according to authorities.The first round of shots occurred as Asbury Park police officers were up the block responding to an unrelated car accident, acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni said. After a hiatus in which officers were negotiating with him, Seidle fired off a second round at his ex-wife, Gramiccioni said.

Almost immediately after Tamara Seidle crashed her Volkswagen Jetta into a parked car, Phillip Seidle fired the first shots with his .40-caliber Glock service handgun into the passenger's side of Tamara Seidle's car, LeMieux said. He was off-duty at the time.

Phillip Seidle then paced around his ex-wife's car, holding the gun to his own head, LeMieux said. Tamara Seidle was shot again multiple times when he walked to the front of the car and fired through the front windshield.

When asked at a press conference Tuesday why officers didn't use force against Seidle while he fired off shots in police presence, LeMiuex said, that's "under investigation at this point in time."

http://www.nj.com/monmouth/index.ssf/2015/06/why_didnt_police_use_force_against_neptune_cop_cha.html#incart_river

[safeinOhio]

6. Police just call it a Professional courtesy

to a fellow officer.

The only "professional courtesy" a cop can offer is to not break the law so another officer is not put on the spot.

[RandiFan1290]

7. More white/pig privilege! nt

[KeepItReal]

12. It really is a twofer

Eom

[alphafemale]

8. Police stopping another cop from murdering someone. Yeah. Right.

They not only will not tey to stop the event they will also aid in the cover up and lie on the witness stand if needed.

I expect even this so called "peace officer" to get away with this.

[Dont call me Shirley]

9. He will probably get off saying he feared for his life. Despicable! Cops are giving themselves

a bad reputation by behaving like scourge.

[frylock]

10. hugged him and patted him comfortingly on the back?!

why weren't they unloading their mags into this shitstain? fuck tha police.

[christx30]

11. I'm sure every murderer gets the same treatment.

It truely is astounding how they pull crap like this, and then wonder why people don't trust them.

[Cha]

15. What a sick sick policeman. The other cops should be protecting the victim not letting their

fellow officer finish the job.

I know.. we all know "should". This really is kind of unbelievable even with all the tragic news about cops killing innocent people and getting off.

[myrna minx]

16. Speechless, yet simmering with outrage.

[Liberal_in_LA]

17. kick