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Another NUT with a Gun

WEASEL-88WEASEL-88 Member Posts: 998 ✭✭✭✭
edited February 2004 in General Discussion
This was about 4 miles from where I work.Delano Massey

HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITERS


A domestic-violence shooting that spiraled into a six-hour standoff killed a Lexington woman, a firefighter and wounded at least three others yesterday. After hours of negotiations, police blasted chemical agents into a home in rural southern Fayette County.

Pat Hutchinson, 45, was apprehended about 9:45 p.m. He is accused of fatally shooting a woman in the house. She is thought to be his wife of 13 years, Fontaine, 60.

The first black female Lexington firefighter ever -- and the third firefighter to die in the line of duty -- Brenda Cowan, 40, had just been promoted to lieutenant on Tuesday. Last night, Fire Chief Bob Hendricks' eyes welled with tears as he recalled pinning on her badge.

The other firefighter who was shot, Jim Sandford, was in stable condition last night, said Lexington fire department Maj. Greg Stapleton. A third firefighter, Mike Souder, suffered an apparent sprain and was treated and released.

A Lexington police officer also was injured in a car wreck traveling to the scene.

Hutchinson told the Herald-Leader that he shot Fontaine and then the paramedics because he was staging a coup against human clones.

"You're about to see armageddon," said Hutchinson, who spoke calmly about a vast conspiracy involving UFOs, alien clones and the CIA.

"I started with my wife," he said. "I shot her in the head. ... She's got a radio sticking in her skull."

Hutchinson talked to the Herald-Leader by phone around 4:30 p.m., after the shootings. A reporter trying to reach neighbors called him by accident.

Yesterday's events began about 3:45 p.m., when emergency units descended on the house at 8645 Adams Lane near Exit 99 off I-75 after a neighbor called, reporting that a woman had been shot there, police said. When Cowan and Sandford approached the house, they were gunned down, police said.

Four other paramedics who were trapped inside their vehicle waited for emergency response units to evacuate them safely.

The area around the barricade was filled with dozens of police, fire and emergency personnel.

Two helicopters landed on the interstate. I-75 South was blocked at the Clays Ferry exit and at Athens-Boonesboro Road, stalling traffic for miles.

For the next few hours, police negotiated with the man to come out of his house. By 7:26 p.m., power was cut at the interstate, blackening the area around his house. The power cut took out floodlights around the home and left one visible light on the front porch.

About an hour later, police blasted six chemical rounds into the house, according to police conversation on the scanner.

A separate group of officers, equipped with shotguns and search dogs, headed for the woods surrounding the house around 8:45 p.m. They fired at least six more rounds, according to the scanner. Officers also reported hearing coughing inside the house and running water.

Each time a round was fired, the pop echoed throughout the woods.

Hutchinson endured an hour and a half of the chemical agents, which irritate eyes, skin and nasal passages.


Too Old To Fight,Too Lazy To Run!

Comments

  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There's one more guy whom al-Quaida could have recruited . . . .

    "There is nothing lower than the human race - except the French." (Mark Twain)
  • jpwolfjpwolf Member Posts: 9,164
    edited November -1
    Why did EMT's approach the house before it was secure? I thought this was what SWAT was for, nut jobs.

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  • CFPythonCFPython Member Posts: 413 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    jpwolf; I'm willing to bet the FD will rewrite their policy and have law enforcement secure the scene from now on. Down here fire/rescue won't even turn onto the street where a DV call is still going on until we get there and tell them to roll on up. Too bad something like this has to happen before changes get made.

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  • muggstermuggster Member Posts: 420 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yeah that's pretty close to where I live...bout 15 miles.

    I watched it on tv for a while but it got pretty redundent after about five minutes...reminded me of the SNL skit..."For those of you just joining us.....Buckwheat has been shot!"

    Human clones...WOW!!I could see a coup against cyborgs but not clones!![:o)]

    Muggster
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