Badges - Re: Two police officers shot in Springfield, a third person reported killed
- From: Christopher Karney <chk8093@xxxxxxx>
- To: "badges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <badges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 20:54:05 -0500
or IL ?
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On Apr 30, 2011, at 14:48, Charles Rahn <c.t.rahn@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Springfield, Il, Mass, or Mo?
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>> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:24:31 -0500
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>> From: CarlGlas@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Badges - Two police officers shot in Springfield, a third person
>> reported killed
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>> Two police officers shot in Springfield, a third person reported killed
>> Saturday, April 30, 2011, 3:11 PM
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>> SPRINGFIELD - A robbery, followed by a double shooting at a State
>> Street barbershop and subsequent shoot-out between police and at
>> least one suspect has left two officers wounded and a third person
>> dead, according to law enforcement officials.
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>> Springfield Police spokesman John M. Delaney said a city police
>> officer and a state trooper were shot in an exchange of gunfire with
>> a suspect in a shooting at Bill Brown's House of Beauty at 946 State
>> Street shortly after noontime.
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>> "They were both wearing vests, which likely saved their lives,"
>> Delaney said. He would not disclose the officers' identities and said
>> they are expected to recover from their injuries.
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>> The suspect, whose name has not been released, emerged from a car
>> trunk, shooting, at the corner of Cambridge and Burr streets and was
>> shot several times by police. He is still alive, police said, but at
>> least with one of two men shot in the salon has died.
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>> William Brown, owner of the shop, said he was not present when the
>> shooting occurred. Shortly after the shooting there, two bleeding men
>> were seen splayed out inside the storefront shop receiving care from
>> emergency personnel.
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>> William Eason, a Hampden Superior Court Clerk who lives yards from
>> the Cambridge Street, said he had just returned home from a
>> professional conference and heard about 20-25 shots in rapid succession.
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>> "I heard the gunfire, looked out my window and a crowd of police were
>> here within seconds," Eason said. "I saw one suspect near a truck
>> with his hands in the air."
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>> Law enforcement sources said the gunplay may have been sparked by a
>> robbery. Hordes of Mason Square residents lined the streets around
>> the shooting scenes, bemoaning the increasingly violent tone in the
>> neighborhood.
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>> A state police helicopter hovered overhead for a time, and police
>> later put out an all points bulletin for 30-year-old Trevin Smith, of
>> Springfield, in a silver or grayLexus.
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>> A press conference is scheduled for 4 p.m. Saturday.
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>> More details will be published as they become available.
>> http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/04/two_police_officers_shot_in_sp.html
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