“The sounds of a Taser and seven to 10 gunshots simultaneously.... all sides shooting.... McClelland is grateful for the actions police took. “The police did the whole street a favor.”
I don't really know what happened because all I have to go on is the reports in the Boston Globe, but the flippant and cavalier attitude toward the life of a human being left me in tears this morning.
"Salisbury man stabbed wife before confronting police" by Laura Crimaldi | Globe Staff May 16, 2014
SALISBURY — Philip Hughes had been living next door to his niece and her husband for seven or eight years, and never knew the couple to have a serious fight.
But officials allege Nicholas Foster, 29, stabbed his wife and a man in the couple’s house on Cable Avenue early Thursday afternoon before a confrontation with police in which he allegedly rammed a police cruiser and menaced officers with a machete and knife.
Oh, HE didn't have a GUN, huh? Then not all sides were shooting!
Police fatally shot him after Foster refused their orders for him to drop his weapons, witnesses said.
“Nobody knows what made him snap,” Hughes said Friday in an interview at his home. “I remained composed, but it’s something I’m going to think about for a long time, maybe the rest of my life.”
Hughes identified his niece as Tracie Hughes, but said she changed her name some time ago to Alice Zombie. She is about 29, he said.
Who does that? Who changes their name to something that is less than human and something associated with the walking dead?
He said he did not know the man injured in the attack.
Police arrived at the couple’s house about 12:47 p.m. and found both victims suffering from severe knife wounds, according to a statement from Carrie Kimball Monahan, a spokeswoman for Essex District Attorney Jonathan W. Blodgett.
They remained hospitalized Friday in stable condition, according to the statement. Monahan declined to give their names.
Zombie and Foster were married several years ago on Cape Cod, Hughes said. They lived in the house Zombie grew up in with her father, Joseph Hughes, he said.
Hughes said his family built his home and the one Zombie and Foster shared.
He believes Foster may have been upset by the man who was visiting Zombie.
“He just lost it and stabbed them both,” Hughes said. “I don’t know. Maybe he got jealous. I don’t know why he lost it.”
An affair and adultery situation?
Prosecutors have not disclosed a motive for the attack. Hughes said he did not know why Foster had a machete.
After the stabbing, Foster drove his car into a marked cruiser on Cable Avenue while trying to flee, then pulled out his weapons, prosecutors said.
Neighbor Fiona McClelland said she was gardening when she heard the car crash and ran out to offer assistance.
“I said, ‘Are you OK?’ He didn’t answer me,” McClelland said by phone.
McClelland said she saw Foster reach for something, then she ran back into her house after an armed police sergeant yelled at her to get out of the way.
When she got inside her house, McClelland called 911 and told police to send more officers to the scene.
She said Foster had a “crazed look.”
Almost as if he were a, gulp, zombie.
Was he on or off any pre$cription pharmaceuticals?
Foster at times was talking to himself and swaying back and forth, almost like he was dancing, McClelland said.
At one point, Foster started exchanging words with the officers, but he did not drop the machete or knife, said Nancy Meehan, who witnessed part of the confrontation.
Meehan said she heard officers tell Foster, “Come on, you were just talking with us. Come on! You can settle down. Settle down! Drop the weapons! Drop the weapons!”
Meehan said she heard the sounds of a Taser and seven to 10 gunshots simultaneously.
I guess they don't shoot people in the leg or arm anymore. Either that, or the police training is terrible.
See: American police now “Israeli-DHS trained,” precursor to dictatorship
Oh, that explains everything.
“It was all sides shooting,” Meehan said.
“I didn’t think they were going to kill him, you know. I really didn’t think they would kill someone right here on your street.”
Amazing what happens when flat-out murderous tyranny occurs right in front of your face, huh?
Hughes said police were defending themselves by opening fire.
“The cop had no choice,” he said.
Yeah, they never do and are always cleared and justified.
Monahan declined to identify the officers involved because prosecutors are conducting an investigation into the use of deadly force by police.
Salisbury police declined to comment Friday evening.
McClelland is grateful for the actions police took.
“I thank God as a citizen in Salisbury that the police were there that day because he would have continued his rampage,” she said. “The police did the whole street a favor.”
I don't think God had anything to do with killing another person, you detestable and cretinous pos that passes for a human being.
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Also see: Darryl Dookhran Deserved to Die
The BPD just doing the neighborhood a favor.
"Police kill man waving machete on Salisbury street; Confrontation follows attack at nearby house" by Emily Sweeney | Globe staff May 15, 2014
SALISBURY — A witness who said he watched police shoot and kill a 29-year-old machete-wielding man on Thursday said the suspect refused to put down his weapons and suddenly ran at the officers.
Jay Deyo, 44, of Salem, N.H., was working a construction job on Cable Avenue when he heard a crash and saw that a red four-door sedan had crashed into a black Salisbury police cruiser in front of the house.
“I thought it was a regular accident,” Deyo said.
Then the driver got out of the car and started waving a “big machete” and a knife at the officers, Deyo said.
“The two cops kept begging him to put the knives down,” said Deyo. “One said, ‘Don’t I know you?’ and ‘We can help you.’ ”
Deyo said the man refused to comply with their orders and continued to wave the machete and knife, while muttering phrases like, “Are you going to be my executioner?”
If he was muttering it how could you hear him? Is this witness even real?
At one point, Deyo said, the police lowered their weapons and tried to calm the man. A third officer appeared with a larger firearm, and the machete-wielding man circled around and appeared to rush toward police, Deyo said. At that point, shots were fired and struck the man, who died in the street.
Neither the victim nor the officers involved were identified by authorities Thursday.
Police arrived at the scene at 12:47 p.m. in response to a 911 call reporting a domestic dispute involving a knife at a home on Cable Avenue. Two people were seriously injured in the incident, although their injuries were not disclosed.
It was not immediately clear who the two injured people were and whether they were related to the man who was killed.
The injured man was airlifted to a Boston hospital, while a woman was being treated at Newburyport’s Anna Jaques Hospital, Essex District Attorney Jonathan W. Blodgett said in a press conference at the scene. He said their conditions were “very serious.”
As investigators processed the crime scene, Blodgett told reporters. the man deliberately crashed his car into the Salisbury police cruiser. The man came out of the vehicle armed with the knife and machete, and police made multiple attempts to disarm him, including using a Taser, Blodgett said.
Police cordoned off an area on Cable Avenue, and a body could be seen under a white sheet on the ground in the middle of the street.
Cliff Chapman, a resident of nearby Brissette Avenue, said he heard yelling and a crash followed by three or four gunshots. When he went outside, he saw the bloodied body of a man in the street. A machete was lying a few feet away from the body, he said.
“It was pretty gruesome,” Chapman said.
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Related:
"Boston is a much better place today than it was in the 1980s.... Today, the streets of Boston are much safer, and the level of public fear much lower, than in the 1980s. Police and prosecutors have learned that building relationships with people yields better results than browbeating them."
Tell that last bit to the war-making AmeriKan government.
Yeah, the Alemany and Lord slaying all forgotten, Remy down the memory hole, and Bo$ton is doing just great (unless you are in college)!
Also see: Boston Globe Drumgold
Time to end the solo.
NEXT DAY UPDATE:
"Weymouth police shoot man who they say lunged at them" by Dan Adams | Globe Correspondent May 17, 2014
Authorities say two Weymouth police officers shot at a man late Friday night after he allegedly lunged at them with a knife.
William J. Sylvester, 35, was shot in the lower torso. He was taken to South Shore Hospital for treatment of injuries that were not considered to be life-threatening, according to Weymouth police.
The two officers were responding to a 911 call received at 11:52 p.m. reporting an unwanted person involved in a domestic dispute at a Winter Street residence, police said.
Police said that when the officers arrived, the caller told them that Sylvester was in a bedroom. When the officers entered the room, he allegedly brandished a knife and lunged toward them, and both fired their weapons.
Police said Sylvester is homeless and had an outstanding warrant for violation of parole for failing to register as a sex offender.
Have you noticed the cops picking off a lot of homeless these days? That's one way to get rid of 'em and slowly reduce the surplus population.
He is now charged with two counts of assault with intent to murder and will be held without bail until his arraignment.
At least he will have a roof over his head and three meals a day now.
David Traub, a spokesman for Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey, said State Police detectives were called to the scene to assist, but the Weymouth Police Department will head the investigation because the shooting was not fatal.
Thank God and luck for that.
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