Cops: Man fatally shot girlfriend's dad from upstairs window

[Judi Lynn]

Cops: Man fatally shot girlfriend's dad from upstairs window
| February 6, 2015 | Updated: February 6, 2015 4:17pm



WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a father coming to his daughter's aid after she had a fight with her boyfriend has been shot dead from the upstairs window of their Pennsylvania home.

Washington County District Attorney Eugene Vittone says 18-year-old Jerald Thompson was jailed without bond Friday after being arraigned on criminal homicide and reckless endangerment charges.

Washington police Chief Chris Luppino says Thompson was arguing with his girlfriend about their child before 4 a.m. Friday when she called her parents. They later arrived at the front door.

That's when Vittone says Thompson fired a shot from a .22-caliber rifle and struck 42-year-old Jerred Price.

http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Cops-Man-fatally-shot-girlfriend-s-dad-from-6066703.php

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Do they even TRAIN police anymore???????????????????

WTF?? My Dad was a cop (as well as several family members) and they all used their goddamned heads!!!!! I am not wired to be anti-LEO. However, cops today are just... fuck, WAY beyond the pale!!!!

[arcane1]

3. I think you may have misread the headline, as I did the first time :)

[Cooley Hurd]

4. Yep! I sure did...

I've gotten so used to the police shooting innocents that I automatically assume that anyone wrongfully shot-and-killed MUST'VE been killed by LEO's.

You certainly can see how one can get that way, with recent news stories.

[arcane1]

5. LOL I felt exactly the same way! :)

[Cooley Hurd]

8. It's been an LONG week!

THANK YOU for keeping it real (for me) arcane1!

[arcane1]

12. No problem!

At least I was polite about it

[virgogal]

7. Can't you read ?

[Cooley Hurd]

9. You don't make mistakes?

Read upthread.

[jen1980]

11. No, they don't train them any longer

Or, maybe I'm just cynical since I live in Seattle where there is no training.

[hack89]

2. Since you didn't bother to comment on your OP

is it safe to assume you are here merely to stir up shit?

[Cooley Hurd]

6. One can post news links and not comment on them...

It is PERFECTLY acceptable to do so.

Is it safe to assume (when you assume... you know the rest) that you don't know this, despite being here for 10 years?

[hack89]

10. JL has a history.

I wouldn't have ask anyone else.

[Cooley Hurd]

13. So do may DUers...

In my 13 year experience here, there are three types of posters; Those who Post, Those Who Comment and Those who post AND comment. My point is that it's okay to be either, or both, or neither (that would be the classic lurker).

[Lurks Often]

14. A host over at the Gun Control Reform Activism safe haven

would dump a couple of articles every day without commenting.

The host in question stopped posting back on Sept 1 for no apparent reason, but between the daily google dumps and the hypocrisy of this host from the Gun Control Reform Activism safe haven posting here when anyone who didn't agree 100% in the Gun Control Reform Activism safe haven was banned, it kind of got old.

[Cooley Hurd]

15. That's the beauty of groups...

They can be banned from a group if they're not adhering to the SOP of that group. If they aren't banned, well, the hosts of that group aren't doing their jobs.

[hack89]

16. You forgot the fourth kind: shit stirrer. Nt

[Cooley Hurd]

17. There's that group...

...but DU, by design, weeds the true shit-stirrers out. They rarely last long.

[ManiacJoe]

18. Was there something about the article that you wanted to discuss?

There was so little data in that article its worthiness of server space is open for debate.