Monday, August 3, 2009
Sunday, August 2, 2009
HEADLINE: Man Dies After Taser Used.....
Phoenix police kill man after seeing him stab woman
Two Phoenix police officers shot and killed a man, 53, after watching him stab a woman in his bedroom and then turn on them.
The woman, 48, who police think is the man's common-law wife, is in critical condition with several stab wounds to the chest, said Detective James Holmes, police spokesman.
Police arrived at the couple's home on Cochise Drive near 19th and Peoria avenues shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday. When they got to the scene the couple's 14-year-old son told officers his father was stabbing his mother inside the home. The boy, who had a friend visiting, first asked his neighbor for help. When the neighbor went inside, the father threatened him.
Four officers entered the house tactically. They saw the man in the bedroom stabbing his wife and demanded he dropped his weapon. When he didn't, one of the officers used a taser on him.
The man tried to cut the probes on the taser before turning on the officer who deployed it. Two other officers then shot three to four bullets at the man, said Holmes. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police are unsure what the couple was arguing about.
The two officers will be put on paid administrative leave, as with all officer involved shootings.
Yeah, the taser didn't cause his death... but it makes an attractive headline.
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Sad
July 30, 2009
Time: Approximately 1118 Hours
Location: 3200 N. 37th Street
Report #: 2009-91213316
Victim: Jose Favela-Lopez
H/M 52-years-old
Suspect: UNKNOWN
On July 30, 2009, at about at about 11:18 a.m., the Phoenix Police Department received a call of "unknown trouble" at the apartments located at 3200 N. 37th Street. When they got there, they found Jose Favela-Lopez had been murdered inside one of the apartments. Mr. Favela-Lopez was the manager of the apartments and had been preparing the apartment he was found in for future tenants. In addition, he had been spending time in the apartment to prevent possible vandalism, which could occur because it was vacant. The cause of death is not being released.
The case is on-going and at this time, there is no suspect information. Investigators are asking for help from the community. If anyone saw or heard something or has any information about this incident, they are encouraged to call the Phoenix Police Department, Violent Crimes Bureau at (602) 262-6141 or "SILENT WITNESS" at (480) W-I-T-N-E-S-S. For Spanish, call (480) T-E-S-T-I-G-O.
For all I know, Mr. Favela-Lopez was armed. I am not here to say "a gun in his hand would have prevented this." I am here to say let the cops do their jobs and don't put yourself in harms way.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Stupid begets stupid
Man shot, killed after allegedly hitting teen with beer can
A man was shot to death this weekend after he reportedly hit a 14-year-old in the face with a beer can at a
The man, in his late 30s, was shot just before midnight Saturday at a home near
During a party at the home, the man apparently came across two 14-year-old brothers fighting with his 8-year-old son, according to
The man was shot outside the home a short time later, Hill said.
Police said two suspects, described only as men around 30 years old, fled the scene in a cream-colored 2003 Chevy Impala, Arizona license plate number 973DGS.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Guns and Booze Still Don't Mix, But They Can Sit at the Same Bar.
Arizonans with concealed weapons permits will be able to take a handgun into bars and restaurants that serve alcohol.
That's under a bill signed into law by Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday.
It would require bar and restaurant owners who want to ban weapons to post a sign next to their liquor license. Drinking while carrying a weapon would be illegal. Before a compromise reached late in the session, the measure pitted powerful groups representing gun and bar owners against each other.
Opponents have said mixing guns and alcohol could cause violence, but supporters said people should be able to protect themselves at businesses that serve alcohol.
The bill originally only applied to establishments with kitchens. It was expanded to include bars.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
How Stupid Are You?
Lisa Kantorski took the call from the person who claimed to be a front-desk clerk about a gas leak in their hotel room near Orlando International Airport.
She frantically relayed the information to her husband Mark, an Indian River County sheriff's deputy. He followed the caller's instructions ... and smashed out the window of his room with a toilet tank.
"When I broke the window, I got suspicious," Mark said. "It didn't seem right, but she [Lisa] was panicking, so I continued."
Just before 7 a.m. on Monday, the Kantorskis had no idea they were latest victims of a prankster -- or pranksters -- whose tricks are sweeping the nation. The unknown protagonists dupe otherwise rational people into doing outrageous things, including driving trucks through storefronts and breaking hotel windows to test fire alarms.
With Lisa clutching their three kids, Mark listened to the caller as he barked out more instructions:
Break the mirror on the wall. Check.
Use the lamp to bash in the wall to get to the trapped man on the other side. OK.
Throw the mattress out the window and jump for safety. Out the mattress went.
Room 204 of the Hilton Garden Inn on South Semoran Road was a shambles.
"I'm not one to argue much with her," Mark said. "When you slow down everything, the situation was kind of odd."
The Kantorskis never got the chance to jump. Hilton Garden Inn Manager Samir Patel appeared at the door to address a noise complaint, an Orlando Police report states.
Patel broke the news to the Kantorskis: There was no gas leak, reports said.
When police officers arrive, Patel said recently received a memo from his corporate office warning about "dangerous pranks" pulled at hotels in other states. Patel did not return calls on Wednesday.
Police don't know who called the Kantorskis, who were not arrested "because he was responding to what he believed to be an emergency," police spokeswoman Sgt. Barbara Jones said.
The Monday incident follows others from around the country:
-- In Arkansas, a caller posing as a sprinkler company employee convinced a motel employee to do more than $50,000 in damage to a motel as part of a "test" of the motel's emergency alarms.
-- At a Comfort Suites in Daphne, Ala., a caller ordered a guest to turn on the sprinklers for a fire that wasn't. The result: More than $10,000 in damage.
-- In Nebraska, a Hampton Inn employee was convinced by a caller to pull the fire alarm, later telling him the only way to silence the alarm was by breaking the lobby windows. The employee enlisted the help of a nearby trucker, who drove his rig through the front door.
The Nebraska incident appears to be memorialized by PrankNET. According to its Twitter bio, PrankNET is "pranksters in a chat room, doing the most epic pranks you have ever heard in your life."
The truck driver made his impromptu drive around midnight on May 27, according to reports.
On May 27 at 12:05 a.m., PrankNET Tweeted: "I just pulled off the most epic prank. I had a hotel guest back his truck into the hotel front window, and break the window."
Videos posted on PrankNET's site recorded an incident nearly identical to the one pulled on the Kantorskis.
"We cannot even access the upper levels until you break out the window to make a negative air flow. . . . We're going to have to ask you to break the window. Don't worry, we're moving you into a different room," a male prankster tells the obedient hotel guests.
Monday's incident was the first of its kind in Orlando, police and sheriff's offices in Orange and Osceola counties said. The Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau said it did not know of any pranks being played on local hotels.
Tourism officials are concerned, however. Orlando has more than 470 hotel properties and 114,000 rooms, not including time shares, according to the bureau said.
Mark Kantorski did $5,000 in damage to the Hilton Garden Inn, according to an incident report, but the hotel has not asked them to replace anything, he said.
"The whole thing happened in less than 10 minutes," said Mark, who flew out of Orlando International Airport with Lisa and three kids that day for a family reunion in Vermont.
He said he didn't understand what was going on when Lisa answered the phone before 7 a.m. and heard a man tell her several hotel guests had complained of feeling dizzy.
"I just held onto my kids," she said. "I was about five minutes away from jumping out of that window."
When Patel arrived for an explanation, the prankster called back. Patel told police he could hear several people laughing on the other end of the phone.
"The manager seemed kind of aware of it," Mark said. "He was shocked when he looked at the room, but not surprised at all by the situation."
Holeee. Friggin. Cow. Just what kind of a moron follows the phone instructions of a stranger? The first guy was a cop? Glad I don't live in that jurisdiction.
She frantically relayed the information to her husband Mark, an Indian River County sheriff's deputy. He followed the caller's instructions ... and smashed out the window of his room with a toilet tank.
"When I broke the window, I got suspicious," Mark said. "It didn't seem right, but she [Lisa] was panicking, so I continued."
Just before 7 a.m. on Monday, the Kantorskis had no idea they were latest victims of a prankster -- or pranksters -- whose tricks are sweeping the nation. The unknown protagonists dupe otherwise rational people into doing outrageous things, including driving trucks through storefronts and breaking hotel windows to test fire alarms.
With Lisa clutching their three kids, Mark listened to the caller as he barked out more instructions:
Break the mirror on the wall. Check.
Use the lamp to bash in the wall to get to the trapped man on the other side. OK.
Throw the mattress out the window and jump for safety. Out the mattress went.
Room 204 of the Hilton Garden Inn on South Semoran Road was a shambles.
"I'm not one to argue much with her," Mark said. "When you slow down everything, the situation was kind of odd."
The Kantorskis never got the chance to jump. Hilton Garden Inn Manager Samir Patel appeared at the door to address a noise complaint, an Orlando Police report states.
Patel broke the news to the Kantorskis: There was no gas leak, reports said.
When police officers arrive, Patel said recently received a memo from his corporate office warning about "dangerous pranks" pulled at hotels in other states. Patel did not return calls on Wednesday.
Police don't know who called the Kantorskis, who were not arrested "because he was responding to what he believed to be an emergency," police spokeswoman Sgt. Barbara Jones said.
The Monday incident follows others from around the country:
-- In Arkansas, a caller posing as a sprinkler company employee convinced a motel employee to do more than $50,000 in damage to a motel as part of a "test" of the motel's emergency alarms.
-- At a Comfort Suites in Daphne, Ala., a caller ordered a guest to turn on the sprinklers for a fire that wasn't. The result: More than $10,000 in damage.
-- In Nebraska, a Hampton Inn employee was convinced by a caller to pull the fire alarm, later telling him the only way to silence the alarm was by breaking the lobby windows. The employee enlisted the help of a nearby trucker, who drove his rig through the front door.
The Nebraska incident appears to be memorialized by PrankNET. According to its Twitter bio, PrankNET is "pranksters in a chat room, doing the most epic pranks you have ever heard in your life."
The truck driver made his impromptu drive around midnight on May 27, according to reports.
On May 27 at 12:05 a.m., PrankNET Tweeted: "I just pulled off the most epic prank. I had a hotel guest back his truck into the hotel front window, and break the window."
Videos posted on PrankNET's site recorded an incident nearly identical to the one pulled on the Kantorskis.
"We cannot even access the upper levels until you break out the window to make a negative air flow. . . . We're going to have to ask you to break the window. Don't worry, we're moving you into a different room," a male prankster tells the obedient hotel guests.
Monday's incident was the first of its kind in Orlando, police and sheriff's offices in Orange and Osceola counties said. The Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau said it did not know of any pranks being played on local hotels.
Tourism officials are concerned, however. Orlando has more than 470 hotel properties and 114,000 rooms, not including time shares, according to the bureau said.
Mark Kantorski did $5,000 in damage to the Hilton Garden Inn, according to an incident report, but the hotel has not asked them to replace anything, he said.
"The whole thing happened in less than 10 minutes," said Mark, who flew out of Orlando International Airport with Lisa and three kids that day for a family reunion in Vermont.
He said he didn't understand what was going on when Lisa answered the phone before 7 a.m. and heard a man tell her several hotel guests had complained of feeling dizzy.
"I just held onto my kids," she said. "I was about five minutes away from jumping out of that window."
When Patel arrived for an explanation, the prankster called back. Patel told police he could hear several people laughing on the other end of the phone.
"The manager seemed kind of aware of it," Mark said. "He was shocked when he looked at the room, but not surprised at all by the situation."
Holeee. Friggin. Cow. Just what kind of a moron follows the phone instructions of a stranger? The first guy was a cop? Glad I don't live in that jurisdiction.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Mother critically injures daughter after accidental shooting
A 12-year-old was left with life-threatening injuries after Phoenix police said her mother accidentally shot her Sunday night.
At about 7:15 p.m., the girl's mother told a 911 dispatcher she was cleaning the gun when it accidentally went off while inside a home in the 2200 block of North 50th Lane, near 51st Avenue and Holly Street in Phoenix, Lt. John White said.
When officers arrived, they found the 12-year-old collapsed on a bedroom floor with a large wound in her upper left shoulder and chest area, the lieutenant said.
Though the teen seemed somewhat alert at the scene, police were later informed that her injuries were potentially life-threatening.
Police who remained at the scene interviewed the victim's family members, including the teen's 5-year-old sister who told officers she watched her mother move the gun around.
Eventually the youngster saw a bullet strike her older sister while the three were in a bedroom, the girl told officers.
A Phoenix Fire Department Crisis Response Team was called to the scene to comfort the eight to nine family members at the home at the time of the shooting, White said.
Police remained at the scene at about 9:15 p.m. Sunday and were attempting to determine if negligence was a factor.
Very fishy. Does mom know what a bullet looks like and how to get it out of the gun without making it go down the barrel first? Responsibility leads to training which results in safety. All sadly lacking here.
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