deadly results

[magicman]

Good for my buddies, they went home.

A man was killed in an officer-involved shooting near The Ohio State University campus on Thursday morning.

Police said the incident began at a CVS pharmacy on Sawmill Road near Hard Road shortly before 1:30 a.m., NBC 4's David Wayne reported.

According to investigators, a man tried to rob the pharmacy of OxyContin and when none was available, he fled the scene.

The employees at the pharmacy were able to provide police with a description of the person.

Officers then spotted the suspected vehicle at the intersection of Lane Avenue and High Street.

When officers stopped the suspect, police said, he confronted them with an assault rifle. According to police, the four officers were forced to fire their weapons, striking and killing the man.

“Officers came across a gentleman matching the description here at Lane and High,” said Columbus police Sgt. Kevin Corcoran. “A confrontation ensued; the officers had to fire their weapons.”

The man was pronounced dead at about 2 a.m. None of the officers involved in the shooting were injured.

It was not yet known if the man fired the AR-15 semi-automatic weapon at officers, but police representatives said the officers were provoked and have the right to protect themselves.

“Police officers have a right to defend themselves and citizens,” police representative Jim Gilbert said. “(The) officers, it appears, had to take immediate action to save their own life.”

Officials said an internal investigation would take place to determine if shots were fired at the officers.

Watch NBC 4 and refresh nbc4i.com for additional information.

[Scruit]

SPOOKY 1:

Police said the incident began at a CVS pharmacy on Sawmill Road near Hard Road shortly before 1:30 a.m., NBC 4's David Wayne reported.

Right next to Max and Ermas and across Hard Road from Krazy Kenny's. I used to live 2 miles from there, on Smokey Row & Hard Road.


SPOOKY 2:

Officers then spotted the suspected vehicle at the intersection of Lane Avenue and High Street.

When I first came to this country I lived with my fiancee at Riverwatch Tower on Lane, right next to the 7/11 across from the Shoe, just a mile from here. We used to eat "Burritos as Big as your Head!"

When officers stopped the suspect, police said, he confronted them with an assault rifle.

NOT POSSIBLE. (columbus has an Assault Weapons ban, therefore he cannot have had one, unless... *gulp* he was a bad man who ignore the law... *gulp* :cool:



Glad you guys are safe! Another one bites the dust.

[magicman]

SPOOKY 1:



Right next to Max and Ermas and across Hard Road from Krazy Kenny's. I used to live 2 miles from there, on Smokey Row & Hard Road.


SPOOKY 2:


When I first came to this country I lived with my fiancee at Riverwatch Tower on Lane, right next to the 7/11 across from the Shoe, just a mile from here. We used to eat "Burritos as Big as your Head!"




NOT POSSIBLE. (columbus has an Assault Weapons ban, therefore he cannot have had one, unless... *gulp* he was a bad man who ignore the law... *gulp* :cool:



Glad you guys are safe! Another one bites the dust.

spooky 1:
My sister in law used to live by that CVS.

Do you still live in Cbus?
I'm glad the guys are ok. Great guys!
I know, I shook my head and said "how could this happen? It's ILLEGAL! to own an assault rifle here!"
LOL Burritos as big as your head! I stopped doing that! Everytime they ship us down to campus I tend to eat something really bad for me. Do you know how long it takes to get this gun belt off after all of those burritos as big as your head!?

[magicman]

This was in the paper this morning. Turns out this guy was not fatally wounded by us but by his own gun.

Man’s own bullet was lethal, not police officers’
Coroner rules in case of robbery suspect
Friday, January 05, 2007
John Futty
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH



A 23-year-old Columbus man wrote his family a suicide note before he took his father’s car and an assault-style rifle early yesterday and tried to rob a Sawmill Road pharmacy, authorities say.

About 20 minutes later, Michael Hevezi killed himself when the car was stopped by Columbus police officers at Lane Avenue and N. High Street.

Four officers fired their weapons during the confrontation, but an autopsy determined that Hevezi died from shooting himself through the roof of his mouth, said Franklin County Coroner Brad Lewis.

"He was struck multiple times by police bullets, but those weren’t lethal," Lewis said.

It was unclear whether officers fired first, or if their shots were prompted by Hevezi shooting his weapon, an AR-15 rifle taken from his father’s home.

"The officers felt threatened," said Sgt. Kevin Corcoran, a Police Division spokesman.

The head of the local police union agreed.

"There was a confrontation with that weapon," said Officer Jim Gilbert, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Capital City Lodge No. 9. "The officers felt an immediate threat and had no other choice but to protect themselves."

Police refused yesterday to release the names of the officers involved.

Hevezi’s father, Alexander Hevezi, called 911 at 1:24 a.m. to report that his son took his car, a 2004 Cadillac CTS, and left a note at the family’s Littleleaf Lane home on the Northwest Side.

Mr. Hevezi read to the 911 dispatcher from the note, which concluded, "I’ll never do what I need to be successful in life. I’m taking the easy way out."

Within three minutes of that call, the 911 center received a hushed call from a pharmacist reporting a robbery in progress at the CVS Pharmacy at Sawmill and Hard roads, less than 2 miles from the Hevezi home.

The pharmacist said a man, who did not show a weapon, passed him a note demanding that he place one bottle each of Adderall and OxyContin on the counter "within 10 seconds."

OxyContin is a narcotic painkiller; Adderall is a stimulant used for attention-deficithyperactivity disorder and sometimes depression.

The pharmacist told the man he didn’t have the drugs, then fled to a stockroom to call police. The man was gone by the time police arrived, but dispatchers aired a description of the car, which matched Hevezi’s father’s car.

Gilbert said officers in the University District began looking for the car because there’s another all-night CVS at Lane Avenue and N. High Street. Officers spotted the vehicle about 1:50 a.m.

"It was good police work," Gilbert said.

Police wouldn’t give further information about what happened after that, except to say that Hevezi died while still in the car, which had stopped at the intersection of Lane and High. Hevezi had been traveling east on Lane.

Hevezi’s father declined to comment when contacted yesterday.

In his 911 call, Hevezi said his son left the suicide note and took the car after spending the evening watching a football game with friends at a Sawmill Road tavern.

Asked by the dispatcher if his son was upset, he answered, "No, not earlier, but he got involved with some drugs before and some bad guys."

Hevezi had no criminal record in Franklin County, but had previous encounters with officers, according to Police Division reports.

In June, his father contacted police after Hevezi took his car and stole checks from his checkbooks. The son told police "he had to take drastic measures in order to pay a $275 drug debt."

In July, he told officers he was carjacked by two men from the same Sawmill CVS. He said he was released on Cleveland Avenue after being forced to return home and get his driver’s license and the title to the vehicle.

The store where the robbery attempt occurred is one of a handful of CVS pharmacies open 24 hours.

It isn’t clear whether criminals are attracted to stores with overnight hours, but most of the 4,000 robberies in 2006 occurred between 3 p.m. and 7 a.m., said Sgt. Shaun Laird of the robbery squad.

Yesterday’s shooting was the first involving Columbus police in the new year. Officers were involved in 14 shootings in 2006, six of which were fatal.

As in all police-involved shootings, the officers will be required to meet with a psychologist before being cleared to return to work. A team of homicide detectives will conduct an investigation to determine whether the officers’ actions were within division policy.

Dispatch reporter Meredith Heagney contributed to this story.


jfutty@dispatch.com