Deputy fatally shoots man while trying to serve warrant

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 6:51 am, Tuesday, January 9, 2018

CHURCH HILL, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say a Tennessee sheriff's deputy has fatally shot a man while trying to serve felony warrants on him.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says the shooting occurred Monday afternoon when Hawkins County deputies were trying to serve warrants out of Dickenson County, Virginia, on 25-year-old Eugene Loftis of Church Hill. The bureau says in a statement that deputies found Loftis in a car in the driveway of a residence and ordered him to show his hands. The statement says Loftis reached for a gun and one deputy fired shots.

Officials say Loftis died at the scene. No deputies were injured.

The bureau, which is investigating the shooting, does not release names of deputies involved in shootings and did not release Loftis' race.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Deputy-fatally-shoots-man-while-trying-to-serve-12483871.php

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[lpbk2713]

1. Parking meter violations maybe?

[EX500rider]

2. Doesn't really matter, if the police are trying to arrest you and you reach for a gun they shoot u

Can't blame them either.

[LanternWaste]

4. They also shoot when they simply allege someone reached for a gun

" if the police are trying to arrest you and you reach for a gun..."

They also shoot when they simply allege someone reached for a gun, regardless of how fanciful the story may be...

[EX500rider]

6. "They also shoot when they simply allege someone reached for a gun"

And which happens more often?

Of the 1,000 or so civilians shot by officers last year only 68 were unarmed. And even some of those could be justifiable shoots if they tried to wrestle away the officers gun.

[Cold War Spook]

7. "drop gun"

A gun that some police carry to drop by an unarmed person they just shot.

[EX500rider]

9. Does the Police officer also put the perps fingerprints on the gun and bullets?

[Cold War Spook]

10. Two things that can wrong.

Don't put the perps prints on the gun or forget to wipe his own off the magazine and bullets. Of course that is on CSI. Most forensic technicians are too busy and just put down on the report whatever the cop says to.

[flotsam]

3. "The bureau, does not release names of deputies involved in shootings...

... and did not release Loftis' race."

I'm bettin' he's a secret negro.... (sarcasm)

[SoCalMusicLover]

5. He Was White

I just saw a mugshot while searching for more details.

And he was wanted for Attempted Murder.

There was also a woman in the car with him, because after all, there's nothing more attractive to a woman than a guy who is wanted for almost killing someone.

[Cold War Spook]

8. Why would a woman

want to be with a man that can't even get a murder right?