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OneInThePipe wrote:
In the chase that followed, Cartwright's truck flipped on its side after spikes at a roadblock punctured the tires. The soldier came out shooting, Spooner said.
Riiiiight.
http://xs138.xs.to/xs138/09181/flipped_cartwright826.jpg
Note the Sheriff's car with a smashed nose parked under the pickup bed.
The Sheriff's car is pointed perpendicular to the direction of travel, while Cartwright's is pointed parallel to travel. Yeah, he really "came out shooting." Hahahahaha.
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http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/chase_16948___article.html/crestview_shooting.html
CRESTVIEW - A gunman shot and killed two Okaloosa County sheriff's deputies Saturday afternoon as they tried to arrest him for an earlier domestic violence incident.
The gunman then fled in a pickup truck to DeFuniak Springs, where he was killed in a shootout after lawmen rammed his truck. (See photos from the shootout scene
here.)
Joshua Cartwright, 28, a U.S. Army Reserve soldier, shot 45-year-old deputies Warren "Skip" York and Burt Lopez just before 1 p.m. at the Shoal River Gun Club, according to the Sheriff's Office. The deputies were pronounced dead at Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola a short time later. (See photos from the scene in Crestview
here.)
"We did lose two very fine men today," said interim Sheriff Ed Spooner. "I don't think anybody anticipated this would get to the level it did as quickly as it did."
The deputies, both of them wearing bulletproof vests, were at the gun club responding after a domestic violence call from Cartwright's home at Consul Apartments on Monahan Drive in Fort Walton Beach.
Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Michele Nicholson said Cartwright's wife went to the emergency room at Fort Walton Beach Medical Center after the 10 a.m. incident at Consul. Sheriff's deputies learned Cartwright was at the gun club and went there to arrest him shortly before 1 p.m.
The deputies Tased Cartwright before he shot them, Spooner said at a press conference Saturday night.
Not long after the gun club shooting, Cartwright was killed in what witnesses described as an intense firefight in DeFuniak Springs.
"It must have been like 30 or 40 shots," said Mark Illich, who was there near the intersection of U.S. Highways 331 and 90, where he said he saw Cartwright drive into a shootout. Walton County Sheriff Mike Adkinson later said that closer to 50 or 60 rounds may have been fired.
About 1 p.m., Illich said he saw an officer putting down spikes at the highways' intersection and knew "something's about to happen."
Then, "(Cartwright's) truck, he started coming. And we saw him, and he seemed calm as a cucumber," Illich said.
Cartwright, Illich said, veered around the spike strip, and an officer opened fire at the back of his truck. Then two patrol cars ran Cartwright off the road, where his truck overturned.
Cartwright fired at Walton County lawmen before he was killed, deputies said.
Adkinson said the State Attorney's Office on Saturday already had determined that all use of force was justified.
York and Lopez became the second and third Okaloosa County sheriff's deputies to be killed in the line of duty in the county in less than a year. The first was Tony Forgione, who died in July as the agency's Special Response Team entered the home of an armed man wanted for mental health evaluation.
Forgione was the first deputy to die in the line of duty in the county.
"Every day, you're just trying to stay out of the line of fire," said sheriff's Lt. Bobby Maloney, who responded to the scene Saturday in Crestview. "It's just devastating ... They're great deputies, great family men."
Nicholson said Lopez and York were patrol deputies in the north county who had families with children. Lopez joined the agency Oct. 5, 2003. York joined Feb. 11, 2007.
Asked if the shootings would hamper an agency already affected by suspended Sheriff Charlie Morris' alleged scandal, Spooner said, "It sure doesn't make it any easier, I'll tell you that."
All lanes of U.S. 90 near the gun club were closed after the deputies were shot. Only one lane of U.S. 90 was open near U.S. 331 in DeFuniak Springs after the shootout there.
Records show Cartwright was arrested in November 2008 on a domestic battery charge. He also had accumulated a number of driving violations over the past eight years.
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Be honest. He was executed.
Further, look up "Hope Steffy."
There's good reasons for smart people to steer well clear of cops.
