What is a 20+Minute Police Response Like

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What is a 20+Minute Police Response Like
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Mon, 12-07-2009 - 5:31pm

Or, to put it another way, when seconds count, the police are only 20 minutes away! Good thing she had a gun.You can listen to the 911 call at the link to get a feel for what those 20 minutes were like.

From: http://newsok.com/homeowner-shoots-kills-intruder-in-lincoln-county/article/3422809

Homeowner shoots, kills intruder in Lincoln County
POLICE Situation unfolds Friday morning in a 911 call to lincoln county emergency dispatchers
BY JOHNNY JOHNSON AND ROBERT MEDLEY
Published: December 5, 2009

CUSHING — For 10 minutes and 20 seconds, Donna Jackson remained calm as she stood in the dark pleading for help and repeatedly telling emergency dispatchers that she did not want to shoot the "crazy,” "drunk sounding” man who was yelling and determined to get inside her house early Friday.

Dec 4A Lincoln County woman shot and killed a man who attempted to enter...

But when he threw a table through her sliding glass patio door, the 56-year-old woman — who was home alone — couldn’t wait for deputies any longer.

There is a loud crash on the 911 tape.

The phone drops, and there’s a single shot from a 16-gauge shotgun.

Only then, does the woman who has been so calm throughout the ordeal begin to fall apart.

"I shot. I shot,” Jackson tells the dispatcher frantically. "I’m going out front. I hit him. Oh God, help me! I dropped the phone. ... Oh please, dear God, I think I’ve killed him.”

As the reality sinks in, her voice fades to a whisper, "Please, Father in Heaven. Please, Father in Heaven. Oh my God, ma’am. Please.”

And she begins to sob, "I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.”

The dispatcher on the other end of the line tries to comfort her, telling her there was nothing she could have done — she had to protect herself.

"No, he’s bleeding,” Jackson said, looking at the body on her back porch. "I’m so sorry, Father.”

A ‘bizarre’ situation
Lincoln County Sheriff Chuck Mangion said dispatchers first got the call from Jackson about 12:40 a.m., after her dogs’ barking woke her up.

The man shot and killed at Jackson’s home, Billy Dean Riley, 53, was no stranger to the sheriff’s office.

"I’d say he’s been in an out of jail since he was old enough to go to jail,” Mangion said. "He has a long history of drug and alcohol-related offenses.”

But what has the sheriff puzzled is why the intruder was so determined to break into Jackson’s rather fortified home, marked by a locked gate and "Beware of the dog” signs.

"As to what his motives were in trying to break into the house remains unclear,” Mangion said.

Jackson said the man was talking "crazy.” He apparently didn’t know where his pickup was, and he kept yelling for someone named "Pat.”

Mangion said his deputies found Riley’s pickup just down the secluded rural road, and it appeared the vehicle had left the roadway and run into a ditch.

Inside the pickup, investigators found Riley’s sister, Patricia Ellen Totty, 45, unconscious from what they called an overdose of alcohol and narcotics. She was taken to a Stroud hospital, where she was later listed in good condition.

Mangion said he couldn’t say whether Riley had gone to the house to get help for his sister.

"He didn’t go to the front door or ring the door bell to try to gain entry,” the sheriff said.

Mangion said Riley is a repeat offender, but local officers have never seen him do anything like this before.

"Dealing with him, I can tell you that when he had a load on, he could be a pretty mean individual,” the sheriff said. "But this is just bizarre. I’ve been doing this for 35 years, and this one is pretty much a mind-blower.”

Court records show Riley, of Sparks, has a number of driving under the influence of alcohol convictions, including convictions in Lincoln County in 1997, 1999, 2001 and 2004. He was convicted of public intoxication in Lincoln County in 2002 and of possession of marijuana in Lincoln County in 1998.

Read more: http://newsok.com/homeowner-shoots-kills-intruder-in-lincoln-county/article/3422809#ixzz0Z2ppAkOo

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Wed, 12-09-2009 - 3:27pm

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Thu, 12-10-2009 - 4:44pm

My last response on this because we are just going back & forth.


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Thu, 12-10-2009 - 7:59pm
Just for the record, I'm asserting you're naive because your arguments are naive. Have a nice day.

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Fri, 12-11-2009 - 12:05pm
Wow...that poor woman had to make such a dreaded decision! I'd probably have tried to leave my house via the front or side door toting my gun with me. I wouldn't want to have to live my life feeling guilty for having killed someone, especially if I had other potential options. Also, I think that the community emergency services department where that woman lives has particularly slow response time compared to where I live. Generally, under the circumstances where a homeowner is trapped inside a home with someone threatening to come in, the response time here wouldn't be 20 minutes. I would be surprised if it would have been 5 minutes. We have a large and well-distributed police force. I live in a close-in yet semi-wealthy suburb of Baltimore. We take our 911 response time quite seriously.

 

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Registered: 03-23-2003
Fri, 12-11-2009 - 12:42pm

I can't imagine anyone thinking like that, but I've discovered on these boards that almost anything is true!


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Fri, 12-11-2009 - 5:43pm

I've never had to pull a gun on anyone either and I hope to continue that trend.

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Registered: 03-23-2003
Sat, 12-12-2009 - 12:04pm

I do agree with you though that we should focus on making illegal guns harder to get - enforce the laws that are already on the books, crack down on illegal gun trafficking, and so forth.


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Mon, 12-14-2009 - 4:21pm
And interestingly enough, just about every gun owner I know agrees with me.

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