Bystander shot during police gunfight with robbery suspect

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Bystander shot during police gunfight with robbery suspect

Updated 4:40 pm, Saturday, May 21, 2016

SPRINGFIELD, Va. (AP) — Police say they're looking for an armed robber who exchanged gunfire with an officer, leaving a bystander seriously hurt, in the Washington suburb of Springfield, Virginia.

Fairfax County Police said in a statement the bystander was driving by Saturday and was hit by a bullet apparently fired by the robbery suspect. They called the injury life-threatening.

Police were called shortly after noon to a jewelry store at the Brookfield Plaza shopping center. Police say an officer saw a man exit the store and confronted him.

Police say the suspect fired at the officer, who shot back.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Bystander-shot-during-police-gunfight-with-7920047.php

[Plucketeer]

1. Dang! "Good guy with a gun"

meant more bullets in the air. And would you believe one or more of them found an unintended target? Oops!

[christx30]

2. The bad guy shot the bystander.

Maybe if asshat hadn't of robbed jewelry store, everything would have been better.
What should the cops do if an ARMED guy robs a store? Let him go?

[Plucketeer]

6. Bullets don't care

whose gun they came from. My point was that once the shooting starts, the bullets are too stupid to know only those holding guns.

[christx30]

7. Yes, the bullet is the problem.

Not the guy robbing the jewelry store?
Not even a little bit?

[840high]

8. Of course not.

[Plucketeer]

9. The being absured part

that's for your amusment, right? I say that cause it don't do s*it for me.

[Skittles]

12. GUN HUMPING FREAKS ARE THE PROBLEM

[christx30]

16. No gun jumping freaks in this story.

There's the guy robbing a jewelry store, which is already illegal. And there here's the cop, who was stopping a violent crime, which is his job.
Tell me what law you would have passed that would have made this crime not take place. Use of a firearm in the commission of a crime is already illegal. Making guns impossible to get so criminals wouldn't get their hands on it? How would you do that? Stop cops from stopping violent crimes? We saw how that worked out in Baltimore last year when the police took more of a hands off approach a year ago, and murders shot up a bunch.
Crime will always happen, no matter what. It's humans we're dealing with. As long as someone has something someone else wants, they are going to try to use force it fraud to get it.

[Skittles]

18. hello

GUN HUMPING CRIMINALS ARE STILL GUN HUMPERS

[christx30]

21. Criminals aren't the ones that are going on

the Internet screaming about their second amendments. To them, the gun is just a tool they use to take what doesn't belong to them.
They wouldn't comply with any gun laws you pass. They have to be either killed or forced to surrender to arrest, and hopefully not released until they are too old to commit another crime.

[atreides1]

17. Apparently, shot by the bad guy!

They haven't had time to determine who fired the bullet!

It's like the shooting in Maryland:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/03/14/gunman-who-killed-officer-intended-to-die-police-say.html


At first the police reported that Officer Colson had been shot by the gunman, until an autopsy showed that he was killed by "friendly fire"!

[braddy]

4. You think the robber is the "good guy with a gun"?

[Igel]

5. Hey, he shot at the police.

If the account is accurate, he fired the first shot. And hit somebody.

So it's obviously the policeman's fault. If he hadn't shown up, the bystander (or byrider) would have remain unleaded, and necessary wealth redistribution would have occurred.

Can't blame the real victim.

[Akicita]

14. I love it. From now on robbers shall be known as wealth redistribution specialists. After all, the

term robber may have a negative connotation in some circles. And drug dealers should be referred to as undocumented pharmacists.

[Plucketeer]

10. Yes - yes

of COURSE I do. Content yourself with that.

[ManiacJoe]

11. OK, I admit that whatever you are drinking/smoking is impressive.

If you would only share.

[deimos1]

3. did anyone get a good look at the gun, which direction it went, what it was wearing?

[Skittles]

13. it was wearing a gun humper hand

[deimos1]

15. what in the fuck is a gun humper?

[Skittles]

19. generally, if you have to ask......

you probably already know the answer