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Patricia A. Cook Dies In Culpeper Police Officer Involved Shooting In VA | wusa9.com
An officer approached this 54-year old woman, who was parked in a church parking lot.
The police department states that when he asked for her identification, she rolled the window up (trapping his arm) and started to drive off dragging him. So he shot through the window. Then his arm was released and he fired 5 more shots at the vehicle as she drove away. Her wrangler crashed into a pole shortly after, and she died.
A witness at the scene gives the following account:
I cannot fathom why a 54-year old Sunday School teacher would purposely trap a cop's arm with her hand-crank window and hold it there while she drove off. The witnesses account makes a lot more sense to me.
I also don't understand why, even if the officer's account is true, he fired 5 more shots at her vehicle as she drove away.
An officer approached this 54-year old woman, who was parked in a church parking lot.
The police department states that when he asked for her identification, she rolled the window up (trapping his arm) and started to drive off dragging him. So he shot through the window. Then his arm was released and he fired 5 more shots at the vehicle as she drove away. Her wrangler crashed into a pole shortly after, and she died.
A witness at the scene gives the following account:
Buchele says it didn't happen that way. He describes an encounter which looked and sounded like the officer shooting a person a point blank range, not because he feared for his life, but because the woman did not obey his order to stop rolling up the window.
"He was right next to the vehicle. He had one hand on the door handle and one hand on his weapon. And she was rolling the window up. And they were exiting out of the parkng lot.
The window was half way up he said 'stop or I'll shoot.' I really didn't think he was going to do it. But she got the window all the way up and that's when he shot. And then she took a left out of the parking lot here and he stepped out in the street and fired five more times," said Buchele.
I cannot fathom why a 54-year old Sunday School teacher would purposely trap a cop's arm with her hand-crank window and hold it there while she drove off. The witnesses account makes a lot more sense to me.
I also don't understand why, even if the officer's account is true, he fired 5 more shots at her vehicle as she drove away.