Man gets 4 years in prison in firefighter's fatal shooting

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Man gets 4 years in prison in firefighter's fatal shooting
Updated 5:42 pm, Friday, April 14, 2017


UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) — A Maryland man who fatally shot a firefighter he mistook for an intruder will spend four years in prison.

Darrell Lumpkin was sentenced Friday to four years in prison.

Lumpkin fatally shot John Ulmschneider on April 15, 2016. Firefighters had been called to Lumpkin's home in Temple Hills, Maryland, to check on his welfare. When he was unresponsive, they forced their way in.

Lumpkin then fired several rounds. A second firefighter, Kevin Swain, was injured in the shooting along with Lumpkin's brother, who was accompanying firefighters.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Man-gets-4-years-in-prison-in-firefighter-s-fatal-11074487.php

[Skittles]

1. gun humping piece of shit

he should have received a much harsher sentence

[wellst0nev0ter]

2. Here's the convicted man in question

And the man had a diabetic episode, so he must have thought people were breaking into his house. I think the punishment is fair.

[Skittles]

3. HE IS STILL A GUN HUMPER

a fireman is DEAD because he that man is a GUN HUMPER

[ColemanMaskell]

4. You prefer he'd used a knife, flamethrower, crossbow, or ninja throwing star, rather than a gun ?

Sounds like your complaint is that the man liked guns.
That isn't the critical point of the story, though.
The crux of the situation is that the man mistakenly thought he was acting in self-defense.

Curtailing guns will not stop people from trying to defend themselves, sometimes mistakenly. Anyone with an exaggerated apprehensiveness about home invasion vulnerability would just provide themselves with different weapons.

Going forward, the answer is to change procedure in some way to reduce the chance of this kind of mistaken interpretation and the tragic result.

Firemen could perhaps be provided with bullhorns or other sound-blasting equipment so they could loudly announce their presence and purpose, and accompany the use of the sound equipment with bright flashing displays of the multi-colored emergency lights so commonplace on police, ambulance, and fire-fighting vehicles. They could make their presence and purpose unmistakably obvious.

[Skittles]

5. the fireman would be alive today were it not for a gun humping, paranoid asshole

a person of such ill health has to reasonably expect people may need to come assist him

if he had used another weapon, maybe that fireman would have a chance

and firemen DO ANNOUNCE THEMSELVES - do you think in this gun humping nation they quietly creep in?

*DONE HERE* because arguing with gun fanatics MAKES ME SICK

[JI7]

6. he didn't just like guns. he used it to kill someone trying to help him

if it was about safety it looks like having cameras would have been much better .

[sl8]

7. "Lumpkin was not charged for the killing, but was charged with illegal possession of firearms."

From http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/248683881-story :

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Lumpkin was not charged for the killing, but was charged with illegal possession of firearms.

Outside of the courthouse after Lumpkin’s sentencing, Prince George’s County State's Attorney Angela Alsobrooks explained Lumpkin had been convicted of simple assault in Washington D.C. in 1985. In 2001, he had purchased a gun legally. However, when the law changed in 2012, he was in violation of it.
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