Dallas officer enters apartment she mistakes for her own, fatally shoots man inside

[pauldun170]

If the man mistakenly entered the officers apartment and shot the woman, he would be charged with breaking and entering and capital murder. He would be on death row.

His name would be all over the news and the folks would INSIST that it wasn't a mistake and that he was trying to rob the place or intentionally murdered the woman. Then it would turn into the blue live matter narrative and this that and the other.

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A local man has died after being shot inside his own apartment by an off-duty Dallas Police Department officer.

Investigators are still trying to piece together what happened but say it appears that after working a full shift, the officer went home to her apartment complex, the Southside Flats in the 1200 block of South Lamar, but went to the wrong unit.

Believing the apartment was her own the officer, who was in full uniform, went inside and when she found someone there pulled her weapon and fired.

The 26-year-old man who lived at the apartment, now identified as Botham Shem Jean, was shot at least once. He was rushed to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The officer involved in the incident was the one who reported the shooting.

Police have not identified the victim or the officer who shot him.

A CBS 11 News crew spoke with Dallas police and they said the officer who fired her weapon had not been interviewed. Officials would not answer questions as to how the mixup happened, or how the officer got inside someone else’s apartment.

The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office will be involved in the investigation.

The officer, who was not injured, will be placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2018/09/07/off-duty-dallas-officer-kills-man-wrong-apartment/

also at https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...t-she-mistakes-her-own-fatally-shoots-n907411

 

[Moonbeam]

Suicide by cop.

 

[realibrad]

I gotta find out more. How do you go to the wrong apartment? Was she drunk?

 

[MomentsofSanity]

I gotta find out more. How do you go to the wrong apartment? Was she drunk?

Hey when I lived in an apartment building every hallway, every door, all looked the same. There was more than once where I got off on the wrong floor for whatever reason and made my way down to my door only for my key to not work.

Open the door and seeing someone else inside I can maybe see not realizing the decor was wrong in the initial panic but...

 

[Bumrush99]

Shocked it was a black man.

Gotta go burn my Nikes now.

 

[Maxima1]

I gotta find out more. How do you go to the wrong apartment? Was she drunk?

It's definitely possible. Look at google.

 

[dasherHampton]

Isn't it time to seriously explore arming cops with non-lethal takedown weapons?

And not tasers, weapons with real stopping power.

 

[Blackjack200]

Hey when I lived in an apartment building every hallway, every door, all looked the same. There was more than once where I got off on the wrong floor for whatever reason and made my way down to my door only for my key to not work.

Open the door and seeing someone else inside I can maybe see not realizing the decor was wrong in the initial panic but...

only for my key to not work.

my key to not work.

Exactly. This story doesn't make sense.

 

[Blackjack200]

Isn't it time to seriously explore arming cops with non-lethal takedown weapons?

And not tasers, weapons with real stopping power.

Or just... not arming them at all?

 

[realibrad]

Isn't it time to seriously explore arming cops with non-lethal takedown weapons?

And not tasers, weapons with real stopping power.

Like what?

 

[dasherHampton]

I think no guns is taking it too far.

 

[ecogen]

Isn't it time to seriously explore arming cops with non-lethal takedown weapons?

And not tasers, weapons with real stopping power.

I'd say it's time you started training them properly and holding them accountable when they fuck up. "I feared for my life" is a fucking get out of jail free card.

 

[dasherHampton]

Like what?

I'm no expert in this field. Something in development?

Cops could carry a real sidearm and also a takedown weapon.

 

[Maxima1]

Exactly. This story doesn't make sense.

Because everyone keeps their door locked.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Exactly. This story doesn't make sense.

It does if the door was unlocked. Turn the key, turn the knob. I had people open my door doing the exact same thing. It's a reflex. We don't sit there thinking "Gee, did I feel the deadbolt actually release there?" No we turn and open.

 

[dasherHampton]

I'd say it's time you started training them properly and holding them accountable when they fuck up. "I feared for my life" is a fucking get out of jail free card.

You think being a cop is an easy job?

 

[ecogen]

You think being a cop is an easy job?

I don't give a shit. They signed up for it, no one forced them. And you're conveniently ignoring that this kind of shit doesn't happen ANYWHERE else, cops in other countries don't randomly shoot people, and if they do they get locked up.

 

[Viper1j]

Hey when I lived in an apartment building every hallway, every door, all looked the same. There was more than once where I got off on the wrong floor for whatever reason and made my way down to my door only for my key to not work.

Open the door and seeing someone else inside I can maybe see not realizing the decor was wrong in the initial panic but...

Not to mention the damn burglar putting up pictures of his family all over the walls and everything.

 

[dasherHampton]

I don't give a shit. They signed up for it, no one forced them. And you're conveniently ignoring that this kind of shit doesn't happen ANYWHERE else, cops in other countries don't randomly shoot people, and if they do they get locked up.

I'd LOVE to see you patrol a dangerous area for a week and respond to every emergency call.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Not to mention the damn burglar putting up pictures of his family all over the walls and everything.

And that's why I said not noticing everything else is wrong once the door opens...

 

[realibrad]

I'm no expert in this field. Something in development?

Cops could carry a real sidearm and also a takedown weapon.

I don't think that is a thing. A kinetic weapon would not likely work as it loses energy very quickly when its large. Rubber bullets hurt but from only so far away, and don't always do enough damage to stop someone.

A taser works well but its prone to other issues. There is nothing that I can think of that has the speed and flexibility needed. Hell, even tasers kill people.

 

[ecogen]

I'd LOVE to see you patrol a dangerous area for a week and respond to every emergency call.

Again, because you seem to be a little slow: THEY. SIGNED. UP. FOR. IT. If you can't handle the job you're free to quit, hopefully before you gun down an innocent man.

 

[dasherHampton]

Again, because you seem to be a little slow: THEY. SIGNED. UP. FOR. IT. If you can't handle the job you're free to quit, hopefully before you gun down an innocent man.

I was trying to suggest a way for cops to stop killing people. How did that get turned into trollish garbage?

 

[feralkid]

You think being a cop is an easy job?

So...because it's a difficult job, we should let them off easy when they fuck up and blow someone away?

 

[ecogen]

I was trying to suggest a way for cops to stop killing people. How did that get turned into trollish garbage?

And I suggested a way, which you ignored. Proper training and holding them accountable when they fuck up. When cops start seeing that the bullshit "I feared for my life" defense doesn't work anymore for everything under the sun, I'll bet you see a huge reduction in situations like these.