Police Officer Preparation & Law Enforcement Resource - Archive

Wed night we had a suicide.

Glock .45 single shot to the head. Some of you may not know but we must treat every suicide as a homicide scene until we are certain. This guy was laying on a bed and just shot himself sideways through the head. The .45 is quite an effective round. 32 yrs old.

The house was a pigsty but was in a decent neighborhood.


A few hours later , we had a fatal crash. Poor guy on a motorcycle is sitting in a vacant lot making a cell call when a Nissan sedan came FLYING past him out of control. The car crashed into the corner of an old building with a stone foundation.

The yaw marks began 155 frt prior to the impact site. 25 year old guy was killed instantly from the impact and he was 1/2 block from his house.

Rough estimated speed ( 25 mph zone) is about 65 or 70. He never hit the brakes...just swerved with no other traffic.

We don't usually get to see the Coroner twice in a night.

WOW, and here I thought all you guys did was chase and corral cows and horses.




















































:D

We do that too :D

The guy on the motorcycle was killed, or he just witnessed the crash?

Do you ever get the feeling busy nights are the result of some kind of wacky laws of physics?

Seriously... I used to work in communications, and its like incidents "attract" other incidents. You don't seem to ever get a nice orderly amount of jobs, like... 5 an hour...

It's usually, 1 job for 5 hours (and you're almost asleep), and then the next hour you get 25 jobs. We used to get this phenomenon within dispatching areas too. You'd have a north and south border, and the north coppers would be SNOWED under, and south would have their feet up, or vice versa.

I call it "the law of incidental attraction". ;-)

I honestly believe in this law, by the way, I'm not just joking! :eek:

The guy on the motorcycle was killed, or he just witnessed the crash?

He was an ear and eyewitness. He estimated the guys speed to be 100 mph, our recon guys put him at 82 mph from the yaws.

He was an ear and eyewitness. He estimated the guys speed to be 100 mph, our recon guys put him at 82 mph from the yaws.

I was confused about that too. I thought the sedan hit the guy on the motorcycle. Either way, still sad.

The 32 yo killing himself is just awful. It saddens me so much that people get to that point of misery and loneliness but also angers me at the same time, for I think it's a very selfish act.