utbagpiper wrote:
I think the police showed up to protect innocent bystanders--including the guy's family--from an unstable person with a gun who had made overt threats of violence.
Did you read any of the stories? Nowhere does it say that he threatened anyone but himself, until the police kicked his door in.
I would like to pointa fewthings.
Everything that my wife said is pretty much inline with what the media has reported.
I can not find a single story where anyone was threatened, UNTIL the police entered his home. He was home alone.
The police were not there, until the family brought them there.
I can only assume that the family gave the police permission to kick the door in and enter.
If you have not figured out whereI am going with this, let me be frank.
If your loved ones have threatened to shoot themselves,
DON'T CALL MORE MEN WITH GUNS!!! :banghead:
Good advise!
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=6213674
Officers arrived to find Batchelor's father and sister locked outside the house, unable to get in. Officers heard a crash inside the home, and thinking Batchelor was still alive and needing assistance, they kicked in the back door and went inside.
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=6234797
Sunday night, they say Batchelor was feeling depressed and alone. He had a disagreement with his wife. "At 8:45 [p.m.], Mike texted all of his siblings and his wife and he said 'I love you. Goodbye,'" Barrowman said. She went to check on him, heard a gunshot and called 911.
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_12182853
Batchelor was upset that his wife, who filed for divorce last week, had left the home with their three children that night, Howard said. Batchelor then sent her a cell phone text message that read, "I love you and goodbye."
After receiving the message, Batchelor's wife called his sister, who went to the home to check on her brother, Howard said. When she and a neighbor arrived, the doors of the home were locked. The pair called police when they heard a gunshot, Howard said, and police arrived at 8:52 p.m.
