The vast majority of times when armed citizens are involved in self-defense shootings the person doing the shooting is arrested, cuffed and taken to the police station. Fingerprints are generally taken, and a night in jail waiting to be bonded out isn’t uncommon. Murder or manslaughter charges are sometimes filed, and the defender makes all the newspapers and police reports, resulting in a sullied reputation at the very least.
When all that stuff doesn’t happen, it’s a pretty good indication that the incident was an obvious case of self-defense. Such was the case this week in Manhattan, Kansas, when a 26-year-old man was forced to draw his legally carried firearm and shoot an aggressor
According to police reports, law enforcement officers with the Riley County Police Department responded to a report of shots fired in the 900 block of Yuma Street at around 8 p.m. on October 9. When they arrived, they found that a 23-year-old Manhattan man had been shot in the parking lot of the Douglass Activity Complex.
The victim was transported by EMS to Ascension Via Christi Hospital, where he was life-flighted to Stormont Vail Hospital for treatment of life-threatening injuries. While details of the event are sketchy at this time and still under investigation, the incident seems to be a clear case of self-defense.
“Preliminary information indicates the shooter, a 26-year-old male, acted in self-defense,” a release from the Riley County Police Department stated. “Due to the nature of the investigation, no additional information regarding the shooter will be released at this time.”
Police said there is also believed to be little to no relationship between the individuals involved in the self-defense incident. And, they said, the shooting seemed to be an isolated event with no threat to the public.
Law enforcement officials will continue to investigate the shooting to determine exactly what happened. The department intends to release additional information after the investigation is concluded.
“Preliminary information indicates the shooter, a 26-year-old male, acted in self-defense,”…
Interesting, the “victim” is officially designated as “the shooter”.
Imagine that.
Logic seems to imply that the attacker was the victim of the shooter.
Manhattan is in NewYok.
KansasCity is in Missouri.
This article is confusing.
Look it up, there is such a place as Manhattan, Kansas.
Manhattan, Kansas is located in Riley County, Kansas, and is the county seat.
Kansas City Kansas and Kansas City Missouri are separated by the Missouri river.
The Kansas City Chiefs are on the Missouri side.
Always mean to return to Missouri and see stuff besides Ft Leonardwood. Usually don’t make it past Tennessee though.
And the bad news is there are more perps out there just like him.
Lest We Forget…
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So, he shot him in the parking lot. That’s good shooting, I don’t care who you are.
“an isolated event with no threat to the public.”
There will be a threat to the public if they give this criminal a slap on the wrist, like Kamala prefers.
Don’t believe their lies about Kamala being tough on crime. The murder rate increased after she was elected in San Francisco. It had been decreasing every year for several years until she was elected. She’s always been easy on crime.
Check out this gem from 2006:
Second, we need to look at what happens once suspects are arrested. In April of this year, a legal newspaper, the S.F. Daily Journal, reported that District Attorney Kamala Harris proposed not even prosecuting drug dealers until they had been arrested three times. (“Police Frown on S.F. DA’s Drug-Arrest Plan,” April 7, 2006:) You don’t have to be a lawyer or a cop to know what message this sends to would-be drug dealers. Learning of Harris’ plan, SFPD Deputy Police Chief Morris Tabak commented “…BART, AC Transit and SamTrans would have to add trains and buses to accommodate all the dealers rushing to do business in the city.”
SFGate 2006
I like Missouri. I have a cousin who lived in Columbia while his wife was working on her doctorate. I drove up there three years in a row. We shot ducks on the Missouri River in the morning and sat deer stands in the afternoon. Some of the finest hunting I’ve experienced. Beautiful countryside and friendly people. I could live there if I weren’t a Florida Cracker.