Deputy killed, another shot in North Carolina standoff

[turbinetree]

Source: Bellview News- Democrat

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

APRIL 29, 2021 06:28 AM

BOONE, N.C.
A North Carolina sheriff’s deputy has died and another deputy has been wounded in a shooting that prompted a continuing standoff.

Watauga County Sheriff’s Sgt. Chris Ward was dispatched to a home in Boone at 9:44 a.m. after the homeowner and his family didn’t report to work or answer telephone calls, his office said in a news release. He and K-9 Deputy Logan Fox entered the home and were hit by gunfire, the statement said.

Sheriff Len Hagaman said Ward died at a hospital in Johnson City, Tennessee, where he was taken after being removed from the scene, while Fox remained inside the home, condition unknown, as the standoff continued.


Read more: https://www.bnd.com/news/nation-world/national/article251007209.html#storylink=moresection

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Update:
NC Sheriff: 2 deputies killed, suspect and 2 others dead

https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-shootings-d74f91e7fcffa316212d9c42e70e19ec

[SoCalDavidS]

1. That's The Price We Pay For Our Freedoms!

I'm sure the pro-gun repubs will send their thoughts and prayers, so there's that.

[Initech]

5. The right to keep and bare arms.... SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED!!!!!!111!1!1!

At least that's what gun nuts tell us...

[Canoe52]

10. Gotta watch out for those freedum seeds!

[Initech]

16. My freedumbs! 'Murica!!!!

[moose65]

18. Yeah right

They sure didn't respect Michelle Obama's right to "bare" arms, did they?

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

2. Ambushed looks like

Maybe if they were unarmed the moron wouldn't have shot them

[BeyondGeography]

3. As stated in the update

Link to tweet

[Initech]

6. Just another day in gun country.

[Tndem615]

7. The government

Will have to go door to door eventually to solve this.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

22. Riiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhttttttttttttttt.

[sarisataka]

24. Is that really

A precedent you want to establish?

[oldsoftie]

25. Some people are actually willing to go that far. Not thinking ahead.

Imagine a trump administration being allowed to go door to door for whatever reason...........

[Peregrine Took]

8. Boone is a great little college ("App State") and ski town.

I'm kind of surprised these nasty folks live around there but then I guess they are everywhere.
Maybe right here on my big city block!.

[moose65]

19. Boone is a great place

I've lived here for over 30 years.

Boone and Watauga County are little blue nuggets surrounded by a sea of red, as are many college towns in the South.

[roamer65]

9. Thoughts and prayers.

[Evolve Dammit]

11. The "new normal". Seems like at least one a day now. Anytown USA. nt

[obamanut2012]

12. Watauga County is a blue county

[joetheman]

13. Why all the military heavy armor?

[Mysterian]

15. Because this is the USA. where every kook can have a garage full of high-power weapons

and every neighborhood can become a war zone or killing field, thanks to idiot nazi gun-worshipping republicans.

[moose65]

20. That's a pic of officers from a neighboring county

There were probably hundreds of officers who came from other towns and counties to help out.

[muriel_volestrangler]

23. I think that's after he shot the 2 police officers

The story says they entered the house (when he and his mother and/or stepfather hadn't shown up for work and no one was answering the phone), and he shot them. Then he shot at first responders (including a firefighter) who tried to rescue them. So it was he who did all the escalating and shooting, and a heavily-armored response after that seems entirely appropriate.

[Mysterian]

14. Just another well-regulated militiaman

Too bad the right to life is less important in the USA than the right to "bear arms."

[sarisataka]

17. FTP?

ACAB?

I'm not sure how I am supposed to feel...

(Just in case)

[Throck]

21. I have friends in that neck of the world.

Lots of grow operations and a few meth labs. A quiet little town with a hidden side.


We need to lighten up on some of the drug laws.


It'll be interesting to see how this confrontation came to be.

[Ruby Zee]

26. This is so sad to read

I'm an Appalachian State grad from 1983 and loved living in Boone and Valle Crucis. It's such a wonderful place and sad that gun violence extends to the mountains of NC.