More Details on June 12th Shooting in Downtown Decatur
Decatur Metro | June 28, 2011From the AJC…
The couple had just eaten at the Brick Store Pub and were walking to their vehicle about 12:30 a.m. when they were confronted by a man with a gun — depicted in the sketch — who demanded the woman’s keys, Channel 2 reported.
The man tried to defend his companion, but a second man tackled him, and the woman was shot once in the lower abdomen. The attackers then drove off in the couple’s pick-up truck, a red 2004 Toyota Tacoma with Georgia tag BJQ 6805.
Channel 2 reports the woman has been released from the hospital and is doing well at home, though she still has a bullet in her hip.
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Interesting that Channel 2 breathlessly reported that the poster had “just been released” when bloggers here knew it had been out for a week.
There seems to be a gap. When they say “the man tried to defend his companion” surely the man did not put up a fight. Hopefully I’m never in that situation but if I am then I’m giving up the keys. No car is worth getting shot.
It sounds like he thought it was 2-on-1 until the second perp showed up.
Without being in the situation it’s hard to know what the correct decision is. Sometimes people comply and STILL get shot, in that case you would wish that you would have fought. There’s just WAY too much going on in the heat of the moment for you or I to know the reasoning for not just handing over the car keys. Both victims are alive, so I don’t think we should pass too much judgement on their actions.
Word.
If you want to know what’s really disturbing – I stopped two City of Decatur police officers standing and talking near the Church Street Marta Station two days after this happened and asked them where exactly the shooting occurred on N McDonough St. and one officer answered “the 300 block”. I said yes that was what was on the news, but where exactly was that on N. McDonough? He answered that he didn’t really know. He was off that day. His female companion did not say anything. I found it disturbing that on a police force as small as Decatur and as rare as shootings are in the City limits (or at least I think they are rare) that the patrol officers are so uniformed.
I wouldn’t say they are uniformed. They have general knowledge of the case. If they’re not the investigating officer, they’re not going to have much detail other than what they’re told in a BOLO. And, there is much territory in the 300 block, so that pretty well pinpoints the location anyway. It’s not like the 300 block is a half mile long.
Make that is not much territory. You can throw a rock from one end of the 300 block to the other.
Well, I hope they were “uniformed” unless undercover but then how would you know. Interesting typo twice. I bet both of you were going for uninformed.
You got me. They were uniformed, but not uninformed.
I have asked a uniformed officer a question about an ‘event’ on more than one occasion and received a very vague response, and wondered if the department instructed officers not to respond with anything that could be construed as a ‘statement’ – or much information. Four square miles to cover, major crimes are still fairly rare, and I’m betting most of the officers know plenty about what goes on in their work place – even if it happens when they are off.
To an extent, you are correct. I believe the PD prefers that anything that even looks like an official statement come from a member of the the command staff for both accuracy and consistency reasons.
Just give up the keys. Not worth a bullet in the hip.
Absolutely the best advice for this kind of situation.
Exactly. Besides, if you don’t give up the keys, you forfeit all hope that the scumbags will wrap the car around a pole and die.
Keeping hope alive, I see.
It’s all I’ve got.
It would be nice if Decatur Metro could say someplace in its own text that we’re talking about a shooting that took place on June 12, which was previously covered and discussed. Instead the copy y’all wrote makes it look like this happened last night.
For the regular readers, that’s sort of the point. That’s the AJC’s copy which is several days late, way after the original DM copy.
Good point. You got it.
I sort of made the same point in the first response – just not clearly enough, I guess.
Not to nit pick here–well, yes to, but the heading says “July 12″.
I just changed it.
Agree with AMB below – psychic? At 10:24 pm heading still says July 12th – don’t think the change stuck.
Psychic much?
I’m assuming we mean June 12th, not July, right?
Argh! Guess I was too distracted when I made that “correction”.
Again..not to nitpick, but based on the headline, this shooting was either 14 days in the future… or 353 days ago.. methinks you meant June 12th.
Aren’t we projecting a shooting for the middle of next month?