In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.
Shots Fired!
Teamblue
Member Posts: 782 ✭✭✭✭
Sioux Falls Police Shoot Gunman
About 8:45 Monday night, two police officers shot a man at a storage unit near 54th Street and Seubert Avenue. The suspect has been named as John S. Lewis. The officers were investigating a report of a suspicious subject when shots were fired at them. They fired back.
Sioux Falls Police Chief, Doug Barthel says, "Fortunately, all of the training and so forth that they receive kicked in and we were very fortunate that neither of the officers was hit in this case."
Police say the man's injuries are 'not' life threatening. Investigators still aren't sure what the man was doing at the storage facility, but they did find three hand guns on him.
Justice through Valor
"Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war" Psalm 144
About 8:45 Monday night, two police officers shot a man at a storage unit near 54th Street and Seubert Avenue. The suspect has been named as John S. Lewis. The officers were investigating a report of a suspicious subject when shots were fired at them. They fired back.
Sioux Falls Police Chief, Doug Barthel says, "Fortunately, all of the training and so forth that they receive kicked in and we were very fortunate that neither of the officers was hit in this case."
Police say the man's injuries are 'not' life threatening. Investigators still aren't sure what the man was doing at the storage facility, but they did find three hand guns on him.
Justice through Valor
"Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war" Psalm 144
Comments
Sioux Falls
Man Shot
KSFY News Headlines
The Sioux Falls Police Department is investigating a shooting involving two of their officers. According to the department, around 8:45 Monday night a field training officer and a new recruit were patrolling the area near North 54th Street and Seubert Avenue.
They approached a suspicious male subject at a storage facility. The suspect then reportedly showed a handgun and fired at the officers. Both officers returned fire, shooting the man in the chest. Sioux Falls Police Chief Doug Barthel reports the man was taken to Avera McKennan Hospital with non-life threatening injuries and the officers responded well to the situation, "They were very alert and were acting professionally in investigating an area where we've had problems and unfortunately came across a subject that had a gun, and this subject fired at them and they did what they were trained to do."
Neither of the officers were injured. Barthel says the suspect was found with four handguns. Police plan to obtain a search warrant for the man's vehicle and the storage unit. The Department of Criminal Investigation has been called in as an outside agency to review the situation.
http://www.awbansunset.com/
NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.
KELO-TV
Six shots, two officers and one suspect. It's a combination that has a Sioux Falls man in the hospital and facing charges of attempted murder. 41-year-old John S. Lewis is in serious condition this hour after police say last night he fired at two police officers and they shot back.
Police were told to patrol the area because of some recent vandalisms at Tri State Storage Units. That's just what officers Scott Reitmeier, who joined the force just 6 months ago, and his supervisor Michael Iverson say they were doing when they came across John S. Lewis.
It's here where police say meth, marijuana, a machete, knives and loaded guns all came together.
Barthel says, "They've got a subject on the ground with guns, they've seen guns in the car, he's fired at them, he still has a gun and he's not dropping it."
Investigators say they came across John S. Lewis last night. While one officer talked to him, the other checked out his stolen pickup.
Barthel says, "In the pick up there were also two sawed off shot guns as well as a long machete knife laying on the dash of the vehicle.
Police say they asked Lewis to take his hand out of his coat pocket, when he didn't, the three struggled to the ground. That's when Lewis is accused of shooting at the officers with a 9 millimeter handgun. Officers say Lewis tried to run and they shot again -- five times all together from just a couple feet away.
Barthel says, "They've got a definite threat. He's shot once, I'm sure he's not scared to shoot again. They've got to stop the threat."
Two of the trainee's rounds hit Lewis -- one striking his holster, the other going through his chest. Six minutes after it started, even though the shooting stopped, the investigation didn't.
When police got into the storage unit rented by Lewis, they found guns.
They also discovered meth and marijuana they think Lewis carried with him to the scene, three loaded handguns in his coat, and a knife and they think he could be connected to the storage unit break-ins.
Barthel says, "A further search of him also showed he had handcuff key he had clipped to the inside back of his shorts."
Police say Lewis, a convicted felon, came with a plan.
Barthel says, "I think it's obvious this guy knew what he was up to and came prepared if he should have a confrontation with law enforcement."
The video camera in the patrol car caught most of the shooting on tape. But we can't see that because it is in evidence. As for Iverson and Reitmeier, the officers involved in the shooting, are on routine administrative leave during the investigation. That's expected to last a couple days.
Justice through Valor
"Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war" Psalm 144
Did you know that in many departments an officer that is charged in a fatal shooting is dismissed from the force and if they are not part of a bargaining unit or FOP, etc., they are on their own for coming up with bail, defense attorney money, etc. and a lot of these trials don't come up for 1 or 2 years and they are trying to find a job.
Hell, considering the present climate it will be a miracle if the guy don't sue them for his personal injuries because they used excessive force or what ever nonsense his ACLU type lawyer dreams up.
If you only have time to do two things so-so, or one thing well ... do the one thing!
This was South Dakota. They can not be any harder on an officer than they were on Jankalo. Actually given the climate in Sioux Falls these officers are in good shape.