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FBI Shoot Eagle Scout In The Face

Evil ATFEvil ATF Member Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited March 2002 in General Discussion
Man shot in face by FBI in serious conditionEagle Scout, 20, had been mistaken for robbery suspect
By Kimberly A.C. WilsonSun StaffOriginally published March 3, 2002An Eagle Scout who was mistaken for a bank robber and shot in the face by an FBI agent in Pasadena on Friday remained in serious but stable condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center last night.Joseph Charles Schultz, 20, was shot at close range about 6 p.m. Friday when FBI agents searching for a bank robbery suspect pulled over his girlfriend's car.Schultz, who lives in the 7900 block of Seabreeze Drive in Orchard Beach in Anne Arundel County and works with fiber optics for a local medical company, has no connection to the bank robbery, officials said.At the time of the shooting, Schultz, who graduated from Northeast High School in Pasadena in 2000, was a passenger in a Pontiac Grand Am driven by his girlfriend, 16-year-old Krissy Harkum.The couple was returning from a trip to Marley Station Mall in Glen Burnie when plainclothes federal agents in unmarked cars pulled them over near Key Bridge Discount Liquors at 7212 Fort Smallwood Road, according to Harkum's father, Joseph Harkum. Carrying weapons that his daughter, a junior honor student at Northeast, described as "assault rifles or machine guns," the agents ordered them to put their hands up, he said.That's when the agent on the passenger's side opened fire, striking Schultz once, he said.'Yeah, I'm angry' "Here you got two of the sweetest kids on the Earth going to the mall and having Slurpees, getting shot through the car window. It's a mess. Yeah, I'm angry," Harkum said from his Pasadena home.FBI spokesman Barry Maddox said agency policy prevented the immediate release of the name of the agent who shot Schultz.He also declined to comment on whether the agent has been assigned to desk duty pending an investigation of the shooting. Nor have FBI officials released information about how the shooting took place."It's an ongoing investigation, and under most circumstances we do not give out too much information," Maddox said.Harkum said his daughter was struck by glass and blood but was uninjured in the shooting. Still, she remained shaken yesterday.'She's not doing too good' "She had nightmares about it," Harkum said."She's not doing too good. Emotionally, she's not OK," he said.Krissy Harkum remained at Schultz's bedside last night. Though he was unable to speak, her father said, she told him that Schultz wrote her a note asking, "Why did he shoot me?"Family members reached at Schultz's home referred reporters' calls to attorney Joseph C. Asensio, who did not return repeated calls seeking information last night.Yesterday afternoon, agents assigned to the FBI's shooting review group based in Washington scoured the scene for the agency's internal investigation.Anne Arundel County police officers continued their probe of the shooting yesterday and were setting up interviews with witnesses, said Officer Charles Ravenell.Copyright c 2002, The Baltimore Sun
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  • gap1916gap1916 Member Posts: 4,977
    edited November -1
    If history repeats itself the agents will get a promotion and transfered to another area. The govenment takes care of there own and we pay them to do it.
  • RedlegRedleg Member Posts: 417 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    What does the fact that he is an Eagle Scout have anything to do with this? The botom line is an agent shot a lawful citizen who had no connection to the case at all. He should fry for this, regardless of the fact that the victim was an Eagle Scout, Medal of Honor Recipient, or just an all-around great guy.
  • Evil ATFEvil ATF Member Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was just reporting the news in an honest and un-biased fashion: Just like the media!
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  • whiteclouderwhiteclouder Member Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    How can she claim to be an junior honor student and not know the difference between a machine-gun and an assault rifle. She'll obviously never make senior grade honor student. What the hell is our country comin' to. By god, I'm gonna sue somebody---- anybody. Get me Spence.Clouder..
  • Evil ATFEvil ATF Member Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My only guess is that the criteria is different nowadays, Clouder. After all, everything is an assault weapon nowadays. Gonna go clean my full-auto assault Jennings in 50 BMG.
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  • dakotashooter2dakotashooter2 Member Posts: 6,186
    edited November -1
    Hmmm a 19-20 year old dating a 16 year old. Maybe it was daddy doing the shooting.
  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I should mention FBI agents ARE NOT COPS. In the state of Texas they are not recognized peace officers. The real question should be, why did they pull the couple over, they do not have the athority to do traffic stops. Any real LEO would know this. Not only that but the FBI agent should have been arrested for Aggrivated Assault.The whole story sounds a little sketchy to me.
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  • daddodaddo Member Posts: 3,408
    edited November -1
    The recless authority and abuse of such is putting us all in the position of "us against them" attitude. Sometimes I think I would rather be up against a criminal when it comes to guns,- I know he's the bad guy and what his probable intentions are, and that he probably can't shoot as well as I. The legal criminal(FBI) are trusted to do the right thing but when they don't, you have no advantage! I've said it before and I'll say it again-"Police state".
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