Yes, I said hostage situation. We learned several new details from last night that never made it to their press release.
#1, there were two people held hostage, (as we originally expressed in our first Post) in a bedroom. They knocked on the door to get their belongings and were greeted at the door by a gun and forced to come inside and go into a bedroom. Ultimately they were able to leave and just walk out.
#2, THERE WERE TWO SHOTS FIRED. One was fired outside when a neighbor came to the door, an argument started and Turner fired off one round. The Chief mentioned in the Press Conference that they found 5 live rounds and two spent rounds. I immediately went after the "spent rounds" and asked why there were two, yet they had only mentioned ONE shot being fired. Chief Duncan then stated there was another round fire off INSIDE while he was holding the two people hostage.
At 8:30 PM last night they gave Turner a breath test and he blew a .16. They did NOT give him a drug test, even though they found cocaine inside after getting a search warrant.
Mayor Ireton spoke and quite frankly I enjoyed what he had to say. He talked about ALL of the local law enforcement working together, unlike we were experiencing only 2 years ago.
When you have all those leaders and officers working together, the wisdom can never be matched and good outcomes are inevitable.
Turner has quite a record, (as we also mentioned in our very first Post) and is on probation for numerous charges until 2015, before this event happened.
I did mentioned my earlier Post today about working together to create a location in which the community could gather. Chief Duncan stated if it had gone on much longer she would have called in the Red Cross.
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9 comments:
What in the Sam Hell would the red cross do?
Great job done by all involved.Everything can be used by law enforcement as a training mechanism,but in my personal opinion the final outcome speaks volumes.We are fortunate to have such competent law enforcement agencies in this area.
Was Ireton talking about 2 years ago to take credit?
Duncan is great and the council that Ireton puts down all the time deserves a lot of credit for getting her in that seat. The co-op Ireton sees now is a combo of getting rid of Webster, Cohen going after Safe Streets help, and bringing in a kick-a$$ chief like Duncan.
You failed to secure the perimeter.
Why did this warrant a press conference?
The whole thing is ridiculous and only goes to show how nosy and drama starved this area is.
Chief Duncan, you are awesome! Truly a breath of fresh air to Salisbury and Wicomico County. You say was you mean and mean what you say. Thank you.
6:14 I don't know about you but I personally WANT to be updated about crap like this that's going down in my area. What's the difference in it making it to Joe's blog, or the newspaper? Are you nosey if you read the newspaper? Please....you'd be the one that was unknowingly shot at and/or hit because you weren't paying attention. Then you'd be screaming--no one notified me!!Get a grip.
5:08 Red Cross would have put neighbor residents in a safe place until situation was over, possibly shelter or motels.
This situation could very well have turned very ugly. Thanks to the co-op of local law enforcement for a job well done keeping matters from getting out of hand.
Crowd control in that area is quite a feat. Stupid is as stupid does. I do believe Chief Duncan has requested a mounted patrol that is very helpful with crowd control.
These horses aren't the pony sized horses we formally had, they are huge horses and people will get out of their way just from the fear of the size of those giants. If the crowd doesn't listen those horses are trained to nudge people and they will get quick!
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