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Six police officers unleashed a barrage of some 60 bullets after a Texas man refused repeated orders to drop a weapon, later found to be a BB gun, police said.
Jose Walter Garza, 30, never spoke when police spent five minutes at a Laredo truck stop ordering him to drop the replica pistol, but eventually “raised the weapon in the direction of a police officer,” Investigator Joe Baeza, the Laredo, Texas, police spokesman told the Daily News.
Garza was well-known to cops, having been arrested nearly 30 times in the past. He’d been committed to a state hospital in 2010 after a suicide attempt in which a rifle went off inside his grandparents' Laredo home, Baeza said. And just hours before the shooting, police interacted with Garza in downtown Laredo after an officer spotted him with another replica BB gun around 9 p.m. last Friday.
Police confiscated that pistol but didn’t arrest him. Garza then went to Walmart and purchased a bottle of wine and another BB gun, police said.
When he showed up at the truck stop just before 2 a.m. Saturday, a patron reported a man with the gun, prompting the security guard to call police. When officers arrived, the security guard attempted to tell police the gun was a fake, but was not able to until after the shooting, Baeza said.
originally posted by: AlphaHawk
It's been argued that the police should have taken the security guards word that he had a pellet gun, I don't believe that's a particularly wise move, as you never know what they have on them and there's no way of telling what type of gun was in his hand at the time.
Count to sixty dude. That's a lot of rounds.
originally posted by: intrptr
I don't care what the "suspect" was doing.
Where do you people miss the point?
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: missed_gear
Where do you people miss the point?
At 60 rounds.
originally posted by: missed_gear
So let's be straight here...If I have a gun or anything that looks like one; I point it at any one of them....I expect to be shot and not have them call a psycharatrist. Where do you people miss the point?
MG